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

Pigtopia

Kitty Fitzgerald

Paperback | Pages: 247 pages

Rating: 3.67 | 721 Users | 130 Reviews

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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	:	Deluxe 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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Very dark. Should have put it down but I was hoping for a happy ending. Lesson learned: DON'T read anything about pigs!!

Beautiful and heartbreaking, this story reminds us to all be gentle and kind with each other. We're all in pain, but coming together with understanding eases those sufferings.

Thank goodness I didn't give up on this book 7 or 8 pages in - which was my serious intention! The story is told from two points of view; one being Jack, a deformed man, who's speech is difficult to follow, and who's tale starts the book. Once I got past this tricky lexical issue, and the second protagonist was introduced, I became more comfortable, and the story flowed back and forth well. This book is not for the faint-hearted. It covers some serious issues - bullying, alcoholism, sexual

Terrible.The unklikely friendship between Holly and her disfigured neighbor had potential to be a good story, told from both of their points of view. When Jacks mom passed away, it became gruesome, cheap, and unconvincing. Heres a quote I found especially astounding: "There was this horrible lump in my chest, like someone had shoved a dead cat down my throat, and it was festering adn throbbing." This book made Death Match look good.

The story of this book is interesting enough, and most people know I enjoy books with horrible cruelty and tragic endings, so one might think I would have liked this book much more than I actually did.Part of the problem with this novel is that one of the two narrators has a method of speaking that is somewhat annoying. It's supposed to show that he never properly learned to talk, but at other times in the novel, he supposedly speaks for others, which apparantly he does without the same affect.

Like Frankenstein, a moral story, but the monster is created only in the minds of the people who don't know Jack, the main character. I found myself putting off reading the book in the end,only because it was becoming almost too painful. I didn't want my fears of how the story would end to be true.

This was recommended to me by a customer who had purchased three of three of my recs for her so I figured I owed her. I got a little over 100 pages in before Jack Plum's narrative style started to grate on me. It was interesting at first but that kind of experimental dialect only works in small chunks. I also felt I knew where the story was headed and was fairly confident these characters get at least a half-way happy ending*, so I did not feel compelled to finish it. Decent story, decent