{"product_id":"pig-tales","title":"Pig Tales","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePig 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThey share everything (pizza is a particular favourite; she gets the pizza, he gets the delivery boy) until someone alerts the authorities and tragedy strikes . . .\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eGender, 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: Paperback \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003ePublished: 2003, UK\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: Faber\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003ePages: 144\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eLanguage: English  \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eISBN: 9780571193721\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Marie Darrieussecq","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57140959543627,"sku":null,"price":13.9,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0978\/8755\/1819\/files\/9780571193721.jpg?v=1777308012","url":"https:\/\/desirelinesbookstore.com\/products\/pig-tales","provider":"desirelines books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}