The amphibious cult classic: a magical tale of a suburban housewife's affair with a frogman.
Dorothy is a grieving housewife in the Californian suburbs; her husband is unfaithful,but they are too unhappy to get a divorce. One day,she is doing chores when she hears strange voices on the radio announcing that a green-skinned sea monster has escaped from the Institute for Oceanographic Research - but little does she expect him to arrive in her kitchen. Muscular,vegetarian,sexually magnetic,Larry the frogman is a revelation - and their passionate affair takes them on a journey beyond their wildest dreams...
Rachel Ingalls's Mrs Caliban is a bittersweet fable,a subversive fairy tale,as magical today as it was four decades ago.
Publisher: Faber & FaberISBN: 9780571367986Number of pages: 128Weight: 115 gDimensions: 198 x 129 x 7 mmEdition: Main
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'Still outpaces,out-weirds,and out-romances anything today.'- Marlon James
'Genius...A broadcast from a stranger and more dazzling dimension.'-Patricia Lockwood
'So curiously right,so romantically obverse,that it creates its own terrible,brilliant reality.'-Sarah Hall
'A feminist masterpiece: tender,erotic,singular.'Carmen Maria Machado
'A devastating fable of mythic proportions...Wondrously peculiar.'-Irenosen Okojie
'A miracle . A perfect novel.'-New Yorker
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