Pig Tales

Pig Tales

by Marie Darrieussecq (Author)

Synopsis

Pig Tales is a brilliant first novel about a stunning young woman who lands a prized position at Perfumes Plus, a beauty/massage parlour. She enjoys extraordinary success at bringing home the bacon (in part due to her increasingly rosy and irresistible backside) until she slowly metamorphoses into a pig. Rejected by her boyfriend, left to wander the sewers and foray for food in public parks, she takes up with a werewolf with insatiable appetites. They share everything until someone alerts the authorities and tragedy strikes. Back at her mother's farm, wallowing in mud and misery, our heroine forces herself at every full moon to regain enough of her human form to tell her incredible story. Gender, politics and social hypocrisy all come under scrutiny in this entertaining and enlightening novel, a feminist Metamorphosis for the Nineties

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More Information

Format: Hardcover
Pages: 144
Edition: First Edition
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Published: 07 Jul 1997

ISBN 10: 057119186X
ISBN 13: 9780571191864

Author Bio
Marie Darrieusecq was born in 1969 in Bayonne, France, a town renowned for its ham. She is a graduate of the Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris, and teaches in Lille. This is her first novel