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Pig Tales Marie Darrieussecq

Pig Tales By Marie Darrieussecq

Pig Tales by Marie Darrieussecq


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Summary

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 .

Pig Tales Summary

Pig Tales by Marie Darrieussecq

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.

About Marie Darrieussecq

Marie Darrieussecq was born in 1969 in Bayonne, France. She is a graduate of the Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris. Her debut novel, Pig Tales (1996), was published in 34 countries and became the most popular first novel in France since the 1950s. Her second novel, My Phantom Husband (1998), became an immediate bestseller. Her third novel, Breathing Underwater, prompted Francis Gilbert in The Times to declare that 'there are very few writers who may have changed my perception of the world, but Darrieussecq is one of them'. Her fourth novel, A Brief Stay with the Living, is published in June 2003.

Additional information

GOR001309349
9780571193721
0571193722
Pig Tales by Marie Darrieussecq
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Faber & Faber
1998-06-20
144
N/A
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