Pig Tales: a Novel of Lust & Transformat

by Marie Darrieussecq

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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
  • ISBN13 9780571191864
  • Publish Date 7 July 1997
  • Publish Status Transferred
  • Out of Print 4 July 2000
  • Publish Country GB
  • Imprint Faber & Faber
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 144
  • Language English