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The Extraordinary Life of Christopher Hogwood
Ballantine Books
April 2007
On Sale: April 17, 2007
272 pages
ISBN: 0345496094
EAN: 9780345496096
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Non-Fiction Memoir
“Christopher Hogwood came home on my lap in a shoebox. He
was a creature who would prove in many ways to be more human
than I am.”
–from The Good Good Pig
A naturalist
who spent months at a time living on her own among wild
creatures in remote jungles, Sy Montgomery had always felt
more comfortable with animals than with people. So she
gladly opened her heart to a sick piglet who had been
crowded away from nourishing meals by his stronger siblings.
Yet Sy had no inkling that this piglet, later named
Christopher Hogwood, 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 peripatetic traveler with
something she had sought all her life: an anchor (eventually
weighing 750 pounds) to family and home.
The Good
Good Pig celebrates Christopher Hogwood in all his glory,
from his inauspicious infancy to hog heaven in rural New
Hampshire, where his boundless zest for life and his large,
loving heart made him absolute monarch over a (mostly)
peaceable kingdom. At first, his domain included only Sy’s
cosseted hens and her beautiful border collie, Tess. Then
the neighbors began fetching Christopher home from his
unauthorized jaunts, the little girls next door started
giving him warm, soapy baths, and the villagers brought him
delicious leftovers. His intelligence and fame increased
along with his girth. He was featured in USA Today and on
several National Public Radio environmental programs. On
election day, some voters even wrote in Christopher’s name
on their ballots.
But as this enchanting book
describes, Christopher Hogwood’s influence extended far
beyond celebrity; for he was, as a friend said, 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. The
Good Good Pig provides proof that with love, almost anything
is possible.
From the Hardcover edition.
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