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Original Title:	Pigtopia
ISBN:	1401360106 (ISBN13: 9781401360108)
Edition Language:	English

Pigtopia Paperback | Pages: 247 pages

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Hailed as a "tour de force" (Los Angeles Times) and a "surprisingly sweet story" (Entertainment Weekly), Kitty Fitzgerald's Pigtopia is a spellbinding debut, featuring one of the most singular characters to come along since Christopher Boone in The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time.Society has rejected Jack Plum. Born with a disfigurement, he is labeled either a monster or an imbecile by his abusive mother and thoughtless neighbors. But Jack has created a haven, his "pigtopia," a shelter where Jack hides from the world with his beloved pet pigs. Then Jack meets Holly Lock, a sensitive young teenager who lives nearby, and offers her a piglet. Together they forge an unlikely and beautiful friendship, until society and fate intervene and Jack's secret world is threatened by forces beyond his control. In language of stunning beauty, Kitty Fitzgerald has created a startling original world with characters that will capture your imagination and your heart.

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Title	:	Pigtopia
Author	:	Kitty Fitzgerald
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 247 pages
Published	:	September 13th 2006 by Miramax Books (first published January 2005)
Categories	:	Fiction. Young Adult

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Ratings: 3.67 From 721 Users | 130 Reviews

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Started a while ago; now it's time to finish it..... (good beginning but school started)Wow. Well I finished it and it is truly amazing, horrifying and sweet. I do think that the cover quotation is amazingly accurate: "Satisfying and heartbreaking This beautifully crafted story retells the classic lesson of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, with much of the innocence an horror intact." [Publishers Weekly]I initially picked this up, thinking it is a young adult book, and I guess that is one of the

Have your read or watched a movie detailing the plot of the Frankenstein monster? Well, then you already know the plotline of this book.- Replace the little girl with a different little girl.- Replace a resurrected man and stolen brain with a large headed guy who has some mental disabilities, lots of family issues, a collection of pigs in a tunnel under his house and talks like Elmo from Sesame Street.Really.. I had the same "that could have merit" reaction that you are having right now. I can

This was difficult to read, much of it written in a made up dialect when told from the point of view of the young man with the deformity, Jack. One had to stop and interpret what was on the page, giving it a very choppy feel. In its attempt to be mystical and to promote tolerance of those who are different, it achieved only moderate success. This reader found it hard to accept most of the background and the reasons given for some actions were flimsy, at best. Certain threads were introduced and

Yeah, I give five-star reviews to a lot of the books I read, but that's because I mostly only read books that are recommended to me by friends with impeccable taste. I'm an evangelist for this book--let me know if you want to borrow it.

I really enjoyed the difference writing style of this book, there being 2 people telling the story covering their feelings, thoughts & being presented how they would 'talk' out loud. To me this made the book & characters more personal to the reader & I could understand & empathise more than if it was written in one style as the author writing the book. I also felt I had a connection with both Jack & Holly. I've worked with, for & along people who are classed as backwards

Jack Plum was disfigured from birth, macro-cephalic. He takes care of his crippled mother, who blames him for her miseries. His father, a butcher with ambitions to raise pigs instead of slaughtering them, vanished when Jack was a child. Jack is a familiar sort. He could be Boo Radley from To Kill a Mockingbird, one of the authors favorite books. He is a social outcast, keeping himself away from a society that heaps nothing by ridicule and scorn on him, and is engaged by Holly, the Scout of this

jack plum is disfigured and hid away from the world. his mother is an alcoholic and constantly berates her "pigchild." jack grows up with love from his father, but his father one day leaves to never return. jack takes the few lessons his father taught him and begins to raise pigs of his own thus the title pigtopia. this is jack's safe world. he befriends sixteen year old holly lock and there is an undercurrent of sadness and displacement between them that links their worlds.but their friendship