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    Carmen Dog (Peapod Classics) (Paperback) By (author) Carol Emshwiller

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    Short Description for Carmen Dog"This trenchant feminist fantasy-satire mixes elements of "Animal Farm, Rhinoceros," and "The Handmaid's Tale" . . . Imagination and absurdist humor mark ["Carmen Dog"] throughout, and Emshwiller is engaging even when most savage about male-female relationships."--"Booklist."
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  • "Combines the cruel humor of "Candide" with the allegorical panache of "Animal Farm.""--"Entertainment Weekly" "Carol is the most unappreciated great writer we've got. "Carmen Dog" ought to be a classic in the colleges by now . . . It's so funny, and it's so keen." --Ursula K. Le Guin "A rollicking outre satire.... full of comic leaps and absurdist genius."--"Bitch " "A wise and funny book."--"The New York Times" "This trenchant feminist fantasy-satire mixes elements of "Animal Farm, Rhinoceros" and "The Handmaid's Tale."... Imagination and absurdist humor mark ["Carmen Dog"] throughout, and Emshwiller is engaging even when most savage about male-female relationships."--"Booklist" "Her fantastic premise allows Emshwiller canny and frequently hilarious insights into the damaging sex-role stereotypes both men and women perpetuate." --"Publishers Weekly" The debut title in our Peapod Classics line, Carol Emshwiller's genre-jumping debut novel is a dangerous, sharp-eyed look at men, women, and the world we live in. Everything is changing: women are turning into animals, and animals are turning into women. Pooch, a golden setter, is turning into a beautiful woman--although she still has some of her canine traits: she just can't shuck that loyalty thing--and her former owner has turned into a snapping turtle. When the turtle tries to take a bite of her own baby, Pooch snatches the baby and runs. Meanwhile, there's a dangerous wolverine on the loose, men are desperately trying to figure out what's going on, and Pooch discovers what she really wants: to sing Carmen. "Carmen Dog" is the funny feminist classic that inspired writers Pat Murphy and Karen Joy Fowler to create the James Tiptree Jr. Memorial Award.