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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

• Montgomery, Sy
• Swine as pets > New Hampshire > Anecdotes
• Pet owners > New Hampshire > Biography
• Human-animal relationships > New Hampshire > Anecdotes

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