Author: ANDREWS, ALLEN
Title: The Pig Plantagenet
Description: New York: Viking Press, 1981. 1st American Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0670555010. Illustrated by Michael Foreman. B&W Illustrations; This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Near Fine dust jacket. The book and its contents are in mostly clean, bright condition. There is some beginning bumping to the spine ends of the book covers. The text pages are clean and bright. There is one nick to the top edge of the text block. The dust jacket is mostly clean and bright. In the Pig Plantagenet author Allen Andrews has created a work of such freshness and breadth of appeal that it transcends category. Michael Foreman's illustrations - at once elegant and whimiscal - capture perfectly the wit and liveliness of a book that can be read both as an allegory about conservation and as a work of completely original - and most definitely adult - humor." " Allen Andrews: UK writer whose fantasy has been restricted to the Plantagenet Animal-Fantasy sequence – The Pig Plantagenet (1980) and Castle Crespin (1982) – featuring a pig named Plantagenet. The setting is 13th-century France. The forest is endangered by the lord of the château, who wishes to massacre the local family of boars. Plantagenet saves them; but they must now Quest for a safe place.". Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket .

Keywords: 0670555010 Science Fiction Fantasy Allen Andrews Michael Foreman Pigs Allegory Conservation Humor Science Fiction


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