PIG TALES by Marie Darrieussecq ( 9780571193721 ) - Books & Audio Books at Pickabook.co.uk

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Title:

PIG TALES

By:

Marie Darrieussecq

Format:

Paperback

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£9.99

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£7.29

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ISBN 10:

0571193722

ISBN 13:

9780571193721

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Publisher:

FABER & FABER

Pub. date:

20 June, 1998

Edition:

Main

Pages:

144

Description:

Pig Tales is a brilliant satirical novel about a stunning young woman working in a beauty 'massage' parlour. she gets the pizza, he gets the delivery boy) until someone alerts the authorities and tragedy strikes .

Synopsis:

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.

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Faber & Faber

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