This stunning fable of political and sexual corruption--a biting "Metamorphosis" for the '90s--warns about what can happen in a society without a soul. A young woman enjoys extraordinary success at her job at a beauty boutique/"massage parlor", until she slowly metamorphoses into . . . a pig. What happens next will overturn all readers' ideas about men, women, and beasts.
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This stunning fable of political and sexual corruption--a biting "Metamorphosis" for the '90s--warns about what can happen in a society without a soul. A young woman enjoys extraordinary success at her job at a beauty boutique/"massage parlor", until she slowly metamorphoses into . . . a pig. What happens next will overturn all readers' ideas about men, women, and beasts.
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Poor. New York. 1997. New Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 1565843614. Translated from the French by Linda Coverdale. 151 pages. hardcover. Jacket illustration by Davia Smith. keywords: Europe France Literature Translated Women World Literature. DESCRIPTION-PIG TALES is Marie Darrieussecq's utterly unconventional first novel in which gender, politics, and social hypocrisy all come under satiric scrutiny. Darrieusscq tells the story of a young woman who lands a position at Perfumes Plus, a beauty boutique/'massage' parlor. She enjoys extraordinary 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. inventory #23689.
