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When women start turning into animals, and animals start turning into women, men find their world thrown into chaos
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Emshwiller ( Verging on the Pertinent ) stretches a conceit past the breaking point in this uneven allegory. Women are degenerating into various animals, and female animals are acquiring human characteristics. The men are puzzled, but don't much mindg ; animals, they realize, are ideal companions ("Relationships and responsibilities were less confining. After all, they merely involved dumb animals who were not worth consideration, politeness, time, effort, gifts"). Her fantastic premise allows Emshwiller canny and frequently hilarious insights into the damaging sex-role stereotypes both men and women perpetuate (a dog's visit to a psychologist is a highlight). But she juggles too many genres here--the g plot turns on mad scientists, academic conspiracies, formula romances--without sustaining the reader's interest in the central story of human/animal metamorphoses. Eventually the g social critique is swallowed by increasingly silly scenarios.
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Carmen Dog
Seller: BookHolders, Towson, MD, U.S.A.
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Condition: Good. [ No Hassle 30 Day Returns ][ Ships Daily ] [ Underlining/Highlighting: NONE ] [ Writing: NONE ] [ Edition: First ] Publisher: Mercury House Pub Date: 1/1/1990 Binding: Hardcover Pages: 161 First edition. Seller Inventory # 6620568
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ISBN 10: 0916515702
ISBN 13: 9780916515706
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Condition: FINE. First printing. The first novel by this innovative and unconventional author, described as "a feminist Animal Farm," in which women turn into animals and animals into women. When a wife and mother begins to metamorphose into a rather unpleasant snapping turtle, the family dog, Pooch, a devoted Golden Retriever, takes over more of the household responsibilities as she gradually changes into an attractive young woman. Emshwiller won many awards as a writer including the 2005 World Fantasy Award for life achievement. 161 pp. Very near fine in green boards with a turquoise cloth spine in a very good dustjacket (edgewear to the dj, a bit of rubbing to the corners). Seller Inventory # 91201