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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.
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Igor Van Driessche
reviewed Carmen Dog on March 09, 2008
Carmen Dog
This is one of those hyper-feminist early sci fi books, where most of the men were either reprehensible, or rather womany. Very sexual, disturbingly so, the James Tiptree, Jr. Award was created specifically to honor this book. (Those of you who know who Tiptree was are now saying, Ah!) I enjoyed it, and the writing was excellent, yet it was almost a vignette. The reason for the women turning into animals and vice versa is never given nor even fully explored by the characters, merely accepted or denied, and the lasting consequences are not explored either. I know, it's an allegory, but we could still throw in something concrete to pin it all on, couldn't we?
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