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...Prize and a permanent place in America's gallery of tragedians with A Thousand Acres, a punishingly dark look at sexual abuse that brought King Lear into the American heartland, she comes up with a 414-page campus satire that culminates in the encounter of a 700-lb. runaway hog and a former Pork Queen of Warren County, Iowa...
...Knopf; 414 pages; $24) is something of a runaway hog itself, a 10,000-acre comic novel set in what might almost be called Animal Farm State...
...refrigerators and an inventor who, after a "brain attack," only moos. Secretaries sell Amway products by telephone, and computer nerds get million-dollar grants to work on "calf-free lactation." One whole chapter is given over to the inner thoughts and agonies of Earl Butz, a "very fastidious hog" who is described quite as sympathetically as the two-legged creatures around him: "At bottom, he was still the hog he had always been, the hog he was bound to be, and he was bound to eat. That was his genius and his burden...
...late. I had come out of The Tasty, and I was sort of bloated on double cheeseburgers. I was walking along, and there was this dark alley that I had never noticed before. I went down there; it was dark and tempting, Then I was confronted by these 30 hogs who surrounded me. They popped out of trash cans; they were hiding in boxes and things. they were sort of sandy, too, Anyway, they were called the Sandhogs, and they were about to kill me. I really don't know why they spared my life. I guess maybe...
...Must have been those two imperial pints of Hog City Porter you had with your baby-back ribs at Divane's Lakeview Grill...