Pig Tales: A Novel of Lust and Transformation

by Marie Darrieussecq (Author), Marie Darrieussecq (Author), Marie Darrieussecq (Author)

• New

  Paperback
  1998

  $10.84

  Pig Tales is a brilliant satirical novel about a stunning young woman working in 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 forage for food in public parks, she takes up with a werewolf with insatiable appetites. They share everything (pizza is a particular favourite; she gets the pizza, he gets the delivery boy) until someone alerts the authorities and tragedy strikes . . . Gender, politics and social hypocrisy all come under scrutiny in this entertaining and enlightening novel. Pig Tales is a Metamorphosis for the present day, a dark fable of political and sexual corruption, and a grim warning of what can happen in a society without a soul.

• Used

  Hardcover
  1997

  $7.15

  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