{"id":73266,"date":"2024-07-02T11:39:17","date_gmt":"2024-07-02T15:39:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/?p=73266"},"modified":"2024-07-18T23:34:26","modified_gmt":"2024-07-19T03:34:26","slug":"sub-rosa-reading-group-pig-tales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/2024\/07\/02\/sub-rosa-reading-group-pig-tales\/","title":{"rendered":"Sub-Rosa Reading Group: Pig Tales"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Sub-Rosa is a book group meeting once a month to discuss feminist and obscure fiction. Our selection this month is Pig Tales<\/em><\/a> by Marie Darrieusseeq.<\/p>\n

We will meet on Saturday, July 27 at 6:30 p.m.<\/strong> at the store. A reminder will be sent out the day before. If interested in attending please send us your email to bookbeatorders@gmail.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Books are in stock and discounted 15%.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Pig Tales<\/em> is the story of a young woman who lands a position at Perfumes Plus, a beauty boutique\/”massage” parlor. She enjoys great 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.<\/p>\n

When this extraordinary first novel by Marie Darrieussecq appeared in France, it became an overnight success and an unprecedented literary phenomenon. It immediately topped the bestseller list and was named a Prix Goncourt finalist. Over thirty countries have bought the rights, and celebrated filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard optioned the film rights.<\/p>\n

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\u201cAnimal Farm<\/em> meets The Metamorphosis<\/em>…A very funny, intelligent book.\u201d
\n\u2014Booklist<\/p>\n

\u201cOink if you love Marie Darrieussecq! [Pig Tales<\/em>] is chilling\u2014and damn funny at the very same time.\u201d
\n\u2014The Washington Post<\/em><\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Marie Darrieussecq (born 3 January 1969, Bayonne) is a French writer. She is also a translator, and has practised as a psychoanalyst.
\nHer books explore the unspoken and abandoned territories in literature. Her work is dense, marked by a constant renewal of genres and registers. She is published by the French publisher P.O.L.<\/p>\n

Her first book, Truismes<\/em> (Pig Tales<\/em>), published at the age of 27, the metamorphosis of a woman into a sow, was a worldwide success, with a circulation of more than one million copies in France and abroad, translated into forty languages.
\nIn 2013, she was awarded the Prix M\u00e9dicis and the Prix des Prix for her novel Il faut beaucoup aimer les hommes<\/em> (Men, A Novel of Cinema & Desire<\/em>). In 2019, she held the biannual Writer-in-Residence’s Chair at Sciences Po in Paris.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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