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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.

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Fascinating and original. -- The New York Times Book Review Oink if you love Marie Darrieussecq! [ Pig Tales ] is chilling--and damn funny at the very same time. -- The Washington Post Hilarious . . . ironic. -- The Boston Globe Animal Farm meets The Metamorphosis . . . . A very funny, intelligent book. -- Booklist Not just an instant best-seller but a sensation. -- Vogue Cross Kafka with Orwell and you get the idea. -- Entertainment Weekly Cool in its perversities. . . . Slyly funny. -- The Economist

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Marie Darrieussecqis a graduate of the Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris, and teaches in Lille.

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