Par Melvin Burgess

Auteur Burgess, Melvin
Titre Lady
traduit de l'anglais par Laetitia Devaux
Disponibilité Disponible
Prix Broché 9,50 EUR
ISBN 2-07-054998-4
Paru le 29 mai 2002
Editeur Gallimard-Jeunesse, Paris
Collection Scripto
Description 236 p. ; 20 x 13 cm
Note La couv. porte en plus : ma vie de chienne
Résumé
Sandra, 17 ans, adolescente anglaise, se dispute avec un clochard qui la traite de chienne. Du coup, elle se transforme en chienne appelée Lady. Elle doit désormais s'adapter à sa nouvelle vie, suivre ses instincts animaux et tenter de rentrer chez elle tout en faisant comprendre à sa famille qu'elle est Sandra transformée. Un roman pour les plus de 15 ans.

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Controversial and award-winning British author Melvin Burgess (Smack,Bloodtide, etc.) is in fine form in his brilliant, satirical novel about a hedonistic teenage girl who is turned into a dog by a mysteriously magical town drunk. Sandra (a.k.a. Lady) is dismayed at first, but quickly discovers the pure joys of unfettered freedom to do whatever she wants and have sex with whomever she pleases--a seemingly perfect scenario for a devil-may-care young woman who would "have shagged [Wayne] up against the wall for a bag of jelly beans a month ago."Hooking up with a couple other humans-turned-dogs, Lady roams the streets and, well, does what doggies do: "One thing about dogs--they know how to greet someone. It's not so much scratch and sniff as sniff and lick--as soon as you see someone, you just gotta know what they taste like!" Her new life is not without inner turmoil, however. Part of her longs to return to her human life, annoying family, standardized school testing, boy-of-the-day "romances," and all. Living as a dog helps her study what it means to live as a human--with the responsibilities, silly inhibitions, stress, and worry that mark that species--but also the flip side: the security and love of her family.Ultimately