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The good good pig : the extraordinary life of Christopher Hogwood / Sy Montgomery.
- Title
- The good good pig : the extraordinary life of Christopher Hogwood / Sy Montgomery.
- Author
- Montgomery, Sy
- Publication
- New York : Ballantine Books, c2006.
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- Description
- 228 p., [8] p. of plates : col. ill.; 22 cm.
- Summary
- A naturalist who spent months at a time living on her own among wild creatures in remote jungles, author Montgomery was more comfortable with animals than with people. So she gladly opened her heart to a sick piglet, with no inkling that this piglet would not only survive but flourish--and she soon found herself engaged with her small-town community in ways she had never dreamed possible. Unexpectedly, Christopher provided this traveler with something she had sought all her life: an anchor to family and home. This book celebrates Christopher Hogwood in all his glory, with his boundless zest for life and his large, loving heart, a great big Buddha master. Sy reveals what she and others learned from this generous soul who just so happened to be a pig--lessons about self-acceptance, the meaning of family, the value of community, and the pleasures of the sweet green Earth. -- From publisher description.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Autobiography
- Anecdotes
- Autobiographies
- Biographies
- Autobiographies.
- Anecdotes.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- 1. Runthood -- 2. Buying the farm -- 3. Breaking out -- 4. Give me shelter -- 5. A blended family -- 6. Pig spa --7. Nature red in claw and tusk -- 8. Celebrity -- 9. Finding Eden -- 10. A hog's holiday -- 11. In sickness and in health -- 12. Coming back to life -- 13. The days before the lilacs -- 14. Hog heaven -- Acknowledgments -- A reader's guide.
- ISBN
- 0345481372 (hbk.)
- 9780345481375
- LCCN
- ^^2005057094
- OCLC
- 62782282
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library