Pig Tales: A Novel of Lust and Transformation
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.--"Booklist". Size A. 144 pp. 25,000 print.
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.--"Booklist". Size A. 144 pp. 25,000 print.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781565844421 (1565844424)
Publish date: April 1st 1998
Publisher: New Press, The
Pages no: 151
Edition language: English
Category:
Fantasy,
Science Fiction Fantasy,
Novels,
Literature,
European Literature,
Cultural,
Adult Fiction,
Erotica,
Feminism,
Contemporary,
France,
French Literature,
Magical Realism
Sharp, laugh-out-loud funny and disgusting by turns, a modern fable where it's almost as if Miss Piggy wandered into a world like Animal Farm. The real-world case of a French politician known to behave like a "rutting chimpanzee" adds a certain sense of reality to Darrieussecq's world.