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Name: Pig Tales

Author: Marie Darrieussecq
Year: 1996
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Genres/categories:
Fiction, Fantasy, Contemporary
Culture: France

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ISBNs:
9781565843615
9781565844421
1565843614
1565844424

"Animal Farm" meets "The Metamorphosis"... A very funny, intelligent book that can be read both for its politics and for its extraordinary depiction of a woman who revels in her bestial transformation.

Pig Tales is the story of a young woman who lands a position at Perfumes Plus, a beauty boutique/"massage" parlor. She enjoys great success until she slowly metamorphoses into... a pig. What happens to her then overturns all our ideas about relationships between man, woman, and beast in a stunning feminist fable of political and sexual corruption.