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Indlæser... The Pig Did It (2008)af Joseph Caldwell
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Bliv medlem af LibraryThing for at finde ud af, om du vil kunne lide denne bog. Der er ingen diskussionstråde på Snak om denne bog. Funny and cute. My grandma gave this book to my dad as a Christmas gift and I read it while visiting. Time well spent ( ) Pure chance I ran across this book, and darn glad I did-just the right mix of mystery and comedy-an absolute delight to read. Aaron McCloud has gone to Ireland to visit his Aunt(who is young enough to be his cousin) . His reason for going is to spend lonely moments wallowing in self-pity over a woman who rejected him. The moment he lands in the Irish Country side the absurdity begins. There were times I was comparing this to a Mighty Python skit-the humor was just that good. Yes, there is a pig involved, and although not the star of the story his cameos are perfection. it is one of those books Goodreads people either love or hate-I fell in love with the pig and was thrilled to see there are 2 more books after this. ingen anmeldelser | tilføj en anmeldelse
An American in Ireland encounters mystery, romance--and an extremely disruptive pig: "Very funny . . . a payoff that is as unexpected as it is satisfying" (Publishers Weekly). Possibly the most obstreperous character in literature since Buck Mulligan in James Joyce's Ulysses, Mr. Caldwell's pig distracts everyone from his or her chosen mission. Aaron McCloud has come to Ireland from New York City to walk the beach and pity himself for the cold indifference of the young lady in his writing class he had chosen to be his love. The pig will have none of that. Aaron's aunt Kitty McCloud, a novelist, wants to get on with her bestselling business of correcting the classics, at the moment Jane Eyre, which in Kitty's version will end with Rochester's throwing himself from the tower, not the madwoman's. The pig will have not a bit of that. What the pig eventually does is root up in Aunt Kitty's vegetable garden evidence of a possible transgression that each of the novel's three Irish characters is convinced the other probably benefited from. How this hilarious mystery is resolved in The Pig Did It--the first entry in Mr. Caldwell's forthcoming Pig Trilogy--inspires both comic eloquence and a theatrically colorful canvas depicting the brooding Irish land and seascape. No library descriptions found. |
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