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Oink, Oink, Oink: a savage modern fable - Eric Dando
'Imagine Woody Allen and Chuck Palahniuk programming a festival for your brain … Part satirical horror, part spooky speculative fiction, a savagely funny critique of consumer-driven society.' — The Big Issue
'Vonnegut meets Orwell in Oink, Oink, Oink…a droll and unsettling nightmare of a book.'—The Age
'This black little fable begins with one of the best opening sentences I've seen lately, something that could sum up an entire generation's understanding of 20th-century world history.'—Sydney Morning Herald
A YOUNG BOY grows up in rural Japan, raised by his mother among the clamour of industrial machines at the local fish cannery. He has never met his father, an Australian genetic scientist. His only vision of the west is gleaned from his mother’s favourite Elvis Presley movies.
One day in the late 1980s he receives a plane ticket, along with a letter from his father, telling him it is time to come and join him in Australia. When he gets there he learns that his father is a rich and famous scientist and entrepreneur, well known for his bizarre inventions. He is quickly dragged into the crazy world of his father’s top-secret genetic experiments.
What follows is a surreal, black comedy—a seductively hip satire of popular culture and consumerism. In the spirit of Kurt Vonnegut, Richard Brautigan, and Philip K. Dick, Oink, Oink, Oink is a savage modern fable about science, family, television, and love gone wrong.
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