Pyg
  • Published:
    Aug-2012
  • Formats:
    Print / eBook / Audio
  • Main Genre:
    General Fiction
  • Time Period:
    18th Century
  • Pages:
    274
  • Age Level:
    18 & up
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A heartwarming debut introduces readers to the adventures of its overachieving porcine narrator

Blending the sophisticated satire of Jonathan Swift with the charming exuberance of a Pixar film, Pyg tells the story of Toby, a truly exceptional pig who lived in late eighteenth-century England. After winning the blue ribbon at the Salford Livestock Fair and escaping the butcher's knife, Toby tours the country, wowing circus audiences with his abilities to count, spell, and even read the minds of ladies (but only with their permission, of course). He goes on to study at Oxford and Edinburgh -- encountering such luminaries as Samuel Johnson, Robert Burns, and William Blake -- before finally writing his own life story. Quirky, beguiling, and endlessly entertaining, this memoir of a "remarkable sapient pig" is a sharp and witty delight.
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    • First Edition
    • Aug-2012
    • Penguin
    • Trade Paperback
    • ISBN: 0143121189
    • ISBN13: 9780143121183
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    • Aug-2012
    • Penguin
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 1101587393
    • ISBN13: 9781101587393
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    • Aug-2012
    • Canongate Books
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 0857862480
    • ISBN13: 9780857862488
    •  
    • Aug-2012
    • Viking
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 0143186515
    • ISBN13: 9780143186519
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    • Nov-2012
    • Thorndike Press
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 1410452085
    • ISBN13: 9781410452085
    • Large Print



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