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Pig Tales

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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.

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Product Details
Faber & Faber
0571193722 / 9780571193721
Paperback / softback
843.914
05/06/2003
United Kingdom
English
Foreign
135p.
20 cm
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Reprint. This translation originally published: 1997.