- Humorous stories, Pigs, fiction, Fantasy fiction, Love, fiction
The marzipan pig eaten by a mouse starts a chain of events involving the feelings of the mouse, a grandfather clock, an owl, a bee, a flower, and another mouse who in her turn discovers another marzipan pig to eat.
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Warm, comic, intimate and spare.
- warmbleak
- gravecomic
- intimateepic
- sparerichly built
- contemporarynostalgic
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- Author
- Russell Hoban, Russell Hoban
- First published
- 1987
- Pages
- 38
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Walker Books, Limited, New York Review of Books, Incorporated, The
- Editions
- 7
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781406373325
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Russell Conwell Hoban was an American expatriate writer. His works span many genres, including fantasy, science fiction, mainstream fiction, magical realism, poetry, and children's books. He lived in London, England, from 1969 until his death.
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