The Inflatable Woman
Author | : Rachael Ball |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 540 |
Release | : 2015-10-22 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781408858080 |
ISBN-13 | : 1408858088 |
Rating | : 4/5 (80 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: A Guardian Best Graphic Book of 2015 Iris (or balletgirl-42 as she's known on the internet dating circuit) is a zookeeper looking for love when she is diagnosed with breast cancer. Overnight, her life becomes populated with a carnival of daunting hospital characters. Despite the attempts of her friends – Maud, Granma Suggs, Larry the Monkey and a group of singing penguins – to comfort her, Iris's fears begin to encircle her until all she has to cling to is the attention of a lighthouse keeper called sailor_buoy_39. The Inflatable Woman combines magic realism with the grit of everyday life to create a poignant and surreal journey inside the human psyche.