Pig Tales: a Novel of Lust & Transformat - Rilegato

Darrieussecq, Marie

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ISBN 10: 057119186X ISBN 13: 9780571191864

Casa editrice: Faber & Faber, 1997

Riassunto

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

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L'autore:

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.

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• Editore: Faber & Faber
• Data di pubblicazione: 1997
• ISBN 10: 057119186X
• ISBN 13: 9780571191864
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 144