Pig Comes To Dinner

Joseph Caldwell

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Harper Collins
24 March 2011

Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Back to his familiar mischief is the obstreperous creature that romped so riotously through 'The Pig Did It', the bestselling first novel in Joseph Caldwell's Pig Trilogy. But in Mr. Caldwell's entertaining porcine sequel, 'The Pig Comes to Dinner', the porker has some more serious business to attend to.

All of the charming characters of the previous book are present again in this delightful new story. Kitty McCloud has bought an ancient Irish castle with the profits from her popular revisions of classic novels like Jane Eyre, and is now hard at work on her ""correction"" of George Eliot's ""big mess of a novel the Bloody Mill on the Bloody Floss - the added expletives a measure of Kitty's consternation.""Kitty's new husband, Kieran Sweeney, is tending the castle's herd of cows when he isn't locked in loving, if contentious, wrestling holds with his fiery new bride, his former rival in one of their district's oldest blood feuds. Kitty's American cousin, Aaron McCloud, has arrived with his new wife, the former Lolly McKeever, to redeliver to Kitty and Kieran their wedding gift of the troublesome pig, who is not at all welcome at the castle.

But over their lighthearted discord hangs a weightier problem - Kitty's new home is inhabited by two comely ghosts from out of the castle's troubled past. How this haunting couple is dealt with serves only to embellish the allure and humor of Mr. Caldwell's uniquely theatrical storytelling.

By: Joseph Caldwell
Imprint: Harper Collins
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 139mm, Width: 203mm, Spine: 18mm
Weight: 248g
ISBN: 9781883285395
ISBN 10: 1883285399
Pages: 255
Publication Date: 24 March 2011
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Reviews for Pig Comes To Dinner

"""A comic triumph as well as a touching remembrance of Ireland's bloody past."" ""This charming, at times hilarious, tale serves as a satisfying story as well we a quiet commentary on the sympathetic relationship between imagination and compassion."" ""It's hardly surprising that Joseph Caldwell pays such keen attention to tricks of language in this novel, because he uses language so beautifully. That he is also funny as hell, glazes the pig."""

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Pig Comes To Dinner

Joseph Caldwell

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