The Edible Woman - Softcover

"Chock-full of startling images, superbly and classically crafted...Kept me in stitches."
-Saturday Night

"Extraordinarily witty, and full or ironic observation."
-The Toronto Star

"Atwood has the magic of turning the particular and the parochial into the universal."
-The Times (London)

“Articulate and sophisticated.…Extraordinarily witty, and full of ironic observation.…A tour de force.…”
– Toronto Star

“[Atwood is] one of the most intelligent and talented writers to set herself the task of deciphering life in the late twentieth century.”
– Vogue

“Remarkable.… The Edible Woman assumes the force of a banal dream that has turned, without the dreamer quite noticing, into a nightmare.…[It] conceals the kick of a perfume bottle converted into a Molotov cocktail.”
– Time

“Delightful – spare, precise, mordantly witty.…Exquisitely written.”
– Journal of Canadian Fiction

“[ The Edible Woman] is chock-full of startling images, superbly and classically crafted.…”
– Saturday Night

“Few writers are able to combine wit and humour.…Margaret Atwood is a poet and novelist who seems to be able to do anything she wants.”
– Newsweek

“A pleasure.”
– Kirkus Reviews

“Funny, sharp, witty, clever.”
– The Times (U.K.)

“Marked by a keen eye for evocative details which cohere into vivid incidents.”
– Canadian Forum

“[Atwood is] a subtle and penetrating observer of relationships between men and women.”
– Sunday Times (U.K.)

“Reflections on marriage, guilt and the relationship between the sexes – classic Atwood territory.”
– The Guardian (U.K.)

“[Atwood] knows exactly what she is doing with every phrase.”
– Vancouver Sun