Carmen Dog
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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.
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Carmen Dogis the funny feminist classic that inspired writers Pat Murphy and Karen Joy Fowler to create the James Tiptree Jr. Memorial Award.
"Combines the cruel humor of Candidewith the allegorical panache of Animal Farm."—Entertainment Weekly
"Carol is the most unappreciated great writer we've got. Carmen Dogought 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, Rhinocerosand 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
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