· In a “coming-of-age story as strange and surprising as The Catcher in the Rye” (New York Times Book Review), a fifteen-year-old boy must learn to. · Pig is a beautifully realised, quiet and melancholy coming of age tale set in the deteriorating landscape of the post industrial British countryside. The writing is excellent, evocative, and deceptively spare.3/5(42). Pig is a coming of age novel about Danny who not only loses his grandmother, his grandfather who is shipped off to a nursing home because his caretaker, wife Agnes, dies, but also the pig Agnes who gradually fades, simultaneously as his relationship with his Indian girlfriend ends/5(6).
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by Andrew Cowan ‧ RELEASE DATE: Oct. 1, A solid, strong first effort from prize-winning Scottish-born writer Cowan, who peers closely into the struggles of a sensitive boy—oppressed by the bitterness and decay endemic to the harsh world of English estate housing in a once-thriving industrial town- -as he tries to hold on to those things most precious to him. Pig, is the debut novel of English author Andrew Cowan. Published in it won the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award, a Betty Trask Award, the Ruth Hadden Memorial Award, the Authors' Club Best First Novel Award and a Scottish Council Book Award, [1] and was shortlisted for five other awards. Pig By Andrew Cowan - FictionDB. Cover art, synopsis, sequels, reviews, awards, publishing history, genres, and time period.
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