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词条 Porky (novel)
释义

  1. Plot introduction

  2. Reception

  3. References

  4. External links

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| name = Porky
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| caption = First edition
| author = Deborah Moggach
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| cover_artist = Sue Wilks[1]
| country = United Kingdom
| language = English
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| publisher = Jonathan Cape
| release_date = 12 May 1983[2]
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| media_type = Print & ebook
| pages = 236
| isbn = 0-224-02948-7
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}}Porky, is the fifth novel by the English author Deborah Moggach, first published in 1983 by Jonathan Cape and recommended in OUP's Good Fiction Guide.[3]

Plot introduction

"Porky" is Heather's nickname because her father keeps pigs in a field at their ramshackle bungalow just off the A4 near Heathrow Airport. Heather is eleven when her mother has an extended stay in hospital over the birth of her second child, leaving Heather alone with her father at home. A sexual relationship starts between them. As Heather grows up her abuse ends up poisoning everything in her life...

Reception

  • An "extraordinarily skilful account of a childhood blasted by what is now acknowledged to be a more widespread offence than was previously recognised: incest", Anita Brookner, London Review of Books.[4]
  • "Deborah Moggach conveys with chilling skill the process by which a fundamentally bright, decent child becomes infested by corruption.", The Spectator[5]
  • Gay Firth writing in The Times warns "readers of despairing disposition or dainty susceptibilities will pass by on the other side, shuddering" but goes on to praise the author for "sustaining a first-person register so level in its tone of quiet desperation, so careful to avoid blatant shock, as to hold back the tidal wave of revulsion and pity which threatens, but never quite engulfs the reader".[6]

References

1. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.antiqbook.co.uk/boox/bkf/37568.shtml |title=Porky. - Moggach, Deborah |publisher= |website=Antiqbook.co.uk |date= |accessdate=20 July 2012}}
2. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/edition/?isbn=0224029487 |title=Edition details |publisher= |website=Fantasticfiction.co.uk |date= |accessdate=20 July 2012}}
3. ^Jane Rogers (ed.), Good Fiction Guide, 2nd edition published 2005 by OUP, page 353
4. ^{{cite journal|url=http://www.lrb.co.uk/v05/n10/anita-brookner/good-girls-and-bad-girls |first=Anita |last=Brookner |title=Good Girls and Bad Girls |work=London Review of Books |date=2 June 1983 |accessdate=20 July 2012 |volume=5 |number=10 |pages=20–21}}
5. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.deborahmoggach.com/pages/books/porky.htm |first=Deborah |last=Moggach |title=Porky review |publisher=Deborahmoggach.com |date= |accessdate=20 July 2012}}
6. ^Gay Firth, "God, love, and the professionals of discontent", The Times, 12 May 1983; pg. 11; issue 61530; col A

External links

  • {{official website|http://www.deborahmoggach.com/pages/books/porky.htm}}
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6 : Novels set in London|1983 British novels|Novels by Deborah Moggach|Child sexual abuse in literature|Incest in fiction|Jonathan Cape books

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