{"product_id":"carmen-dog-9781931520089","title":"Carmen Dog","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Combines the cruel humor of \u003ci\u003eCandide\u003c\/i\u003e with the allegorical panache of \u003ci\u003eAnimal Farm.\u003c\/i\u003e\"--\u003ci\u003eEntertainment Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Carol is the most unappreciated great writer we've got. \u003ci\u003eCarmen Dog\u003c\/i\u003e ought to be a classic in the colleges by now . . . It's so funny, and it's so keen.\"\u003cbr\u003e--Ursula K. Le Guin\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A rollicking outre satire.... full of comic leaps and absurdist genius.\"--\u003ci\u003eBitch \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A wise and funny book.\"--\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"This trenchant feminist fantasy-satire mixes elements of \u003ci\u003eAnimal Farm, Rhinoceros\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Handmaid's Tale\u003c\/i\u003e.... Imagination and absurdist humor mark [\u003ci\u003eCarmen Dog\u003c\/i\u003e] throughout, and Emshwiller is engaging even when most savage about male-female relationships.\"--\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Her fantastic premise allows Emshwiller canny and frequently hilarious insights into the damaging sex-role stereotypes both men and women perpetuate.\"\u003cbr\u003e--\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEverything 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eCarmen Dog\u003c\/i\u003e is the funny feminist classic that inspired writers Pat Murphy and Karen Joy Fowler to create the James Tiptree Jr. Memorial Award.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCarol Emshwiller is the author of the collections Report to the Men's Club, The Start of the End of it All, Verging on the Pertinent, Joy in Our Cause, and I Live With You, and the novels The Mount, Carmen Dog, Ledoyt, and Leaping Man Hill.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Small Beer Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50364095660306,"sku":"9781931520089","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_e0854006-b4e2-4373-b190-7b5a97726fc7.jpg?v=1728426602","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/carmen-dog-9781931520089","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}