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Morgan Llewelyn Padrig Arthur Caradoc Jones-Jones is the central character of Liza Granville's "Curing the Pig." When he is introduced, he lost his job at a bank, a victim, he feels, of a newly hired female executive who he calls the "Big Bitch". He is planning to return to his home, a farm in the Marches between Wakes and England, and write a novel about women.
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Granville's story doesn't linger long in the Welsh Marches. In a drunken haze at the wake of his parents, Morgan snacks on some wild mushrooms and takes off on a nightmare trip. He is transported through a Stonehenge-like portal to an alternate world in which men and women have reversed roles, males are perceived as weak sex objects who study domestic arts and females are Amazonian power brokers. The men shave their legs and wear colorful, impractical clothing. The women are aging Don Juans who poke and prod at the comely young males. It is a dystopian vision which clearly illustrates that no matter who wields the power, inequality of the sexes breeds abuse. Women in this alternative world are no better than men in the real world.
The review of this Book prepared by Jack Goodstein



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Plot & Themes

Composition of Book Descript. of chases or violence 10%planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives 20%Feelings, relationships, character bio/development 50%Descript. of society, phenomena (tech), places 20% Tone of book    -   cynical or dry-wit FANTASY or SCIENCE FICTION?    -   fantasy story on current Earth Repressive society story    -   Yes Is this an adult or child's book?    -   Adult or Young Adult Book Who's a slave/repressed?    -   men are slaves

Main Character

Identity:    -   Male Profession/status:    -   unemployed Age:    -   20's-30's

Setting

Earth setting:    -   20th century Takes place on Earth?    -   Yes

Writing Style

Accounts of torture and death?    -   generic/vague references to death/punishment How much dialogue?    -   roughly even amounts of descript and dialog

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