Description
Subversive, hilarious and heartbreaking all at once, Ingalls’ lyrical feminist fairy-tale about a lonely Californian housewife who has an affair with an amphibious sea monster is an uninhibited miracle of storytelling, as resounding now as it was when first published four decades ago.
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.
Number of pages: 128
Dimensions: 198 x 129 x 7 mm
