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The good good pig : the extraordinary life of Christopher Hogwood / Sy Montgomery.

Record details

ISBN: 9780345496096
ISBN: 0345496094
Physical Description: 245 p., [8] p. of plates : col. ill. ; 21 cm.
Edition: Ballantine Books trade pbk. ed.
Publisher: New York : Ballantine Books, 2007, c2006.

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:

Runthood -- Buying the farm -- Breaking out -- Give me shelter -- Blended family -- Pig Spa -- Nature red in claw and tusk -- Celebrity -- Finding Eden -- Hog's holiday -- In sickness and in health -- Coming back to life -- Days before the lilacs -- Hog Heaven -- Acknowledgments -- Reader's guide.

Summary, etc.:

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.