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26) Fitzgerald, Kitty. PIGTOPIA. Miramax: 2005.
From Publishers Weekly:
Irish playwright Fitzgerald's prose reads like a Gaelic folksong, with most of the macabre moral fable told in the particular patois of Jack Plum, a man with a monstrous appearance but greater depths of humanity and understanding than most "normal" people. Labeled a freak or an imbecile, Jack lives alone with his abusive mother. His only refuge is the cellar shelter conceived of by his long-absent father as a hidden place to raise pigs. Only when he befriends the awkward, young Holly Lock does human friendship enrich his life. The deeper and more genuine their friendship becomes, the greater the threat to Jack's "Palace for pigs." This beautifully crafted story retells the classic lesson of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, with much of the innocence and the horror intact.
From Publishers Weekly:
Irish playwright Fitzgerald's prose reads like a Gaelic folksong, with most of the macabre moral fable told in the particular patois of Jack Plum, a man with a monstrous appearance but greater depths of humanity and understanding than most "normal" people. Labeled a freak or an imbecile, Jack lives alone with his abusive mother. His only refuge is the cellar shelter conceived of by his long-absent father as a hidden place to raise pigs. Only when he befriends the awkward, young Holly Lock does human friendship enrich his life. The deeper and more genuine their friendship becomes, the greater the threat to Jack's "Palace for pigs." This beautifully crafted story retells the classic lesson of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, with much of the innocence and the horror intact.
