IniciGrupsConversesMésTendències
Cerca al lloc
Aquest lloc utilitza galetes per a oferir els nostres serveis, millorar el desenvolupament, per a anàlisis i (si no has iniciat la sessió) per a publicitat. Utilitzant LibraryThing acceptes que has llegit i entès els nostres Termes de servei i política de privacitat. L'ús que facis del lloc i dels seus serveis està subjecte a aquestes polítiques i termes.

Resultats de Google Books

Clica una miniatura per anar a Google Books.

S'està carregant…

Pig-Heart Boy (1997)

de Malorie Blackman

MembresRessenyesPopularitatValoració mitjanaMencions
2271117,456 (3.7)11
Cameron is 13 years old and desperately in need of a heart transplant, when a pioneering doctor approaches his family with a startling proposal. He can give Cameron a new heart - not from a human, but from a pig
S'està carregant…

Apunta't a LibraryThing per saber si aquest llibre et pot agradar.

No hi ha cap discussió a Converses sobre aquesta obra.

» Mira també 11 mencions

Cameron was struck down with a virus that is destroying his heart. Without a heart transplant, he has just months to live, and his quality of life is deteriorating every day. All he wants to do is live, and live as his friends do.

When offered a radical new treatment, involving the transplant of a genetically altered pig's heart, he must face not only his own fears of death, his confusion over the ethical decisions but also the reaction of his family, friends, and the public.

Deceptively simple, this is a very nicely written book exploring the themes of death and the ethics of cloning and animal experimentation. Despite being from a young teenager's view, it holds enough within it to keep an adult reader interested, and I raced through it. It should be said that this was a reread from my own teenage years, but I still got as much out of it, and was almost in tears at one point.

Malorie Blackman is a well known YA writer, but this is one of her lesser known books. Nevertheless, it deserves to be noticed perhaps more than it has been.

From page 16:

I gave the water one last, vicious kick, then stood up slowly. I couldn't bear to listen to any more. It was as if there was a glass wall separating me from the rest of the world. All I could do was watch and envy my friends as they swam and dived and did whatever they wanted without a care in the world.
  lunacat | Jan 20, 2010 |
Sense ressenyes | afegeix-hi una ressenya
Has d'iniciar sessió per poder modificar les dades del coneixement compartit.
Si et cal més ajuda, mira la pàgina d'ajuda del coneixement compartit.
Títol normalitzat
Títol original
Títols alternatius
Data original de publicació
Gent/Personatges
Llocs importants
Esdeveniments importants
Pel·lícules relacionades
Epígraf
Dedicatòria
Primeres paraules
Citacions
Darreres paraules
Nota de desambiguació
Editor de l'editorial
Creadors de notes promocionals a la coberta
Llengua original
CDD/SMD canònics
LCC canònic

Referències a aquesta obra en fonts externes.

Wikipedia en anglès (1)

Cameron is 13 years old and desperately in need of a heart transplant, when a pioneering doctor approaches his family with a startling proposal. He can give Cameron a new heart - not from a human, but from a pig

No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca.

Descripció del llibre
Sumari haiku

Debats actuals

Cap

Cobertes populars

Dreceres

Valoració

Mitjana: (3.7)
0.5
1
1.5
2 2
2.5
3 8
3.5 2
4 11
4.5 1
5 4

Ets tu?

Fes-te Autor del LibraryThing.

 

Quant a | Contacte | LibraryThing.com | Privadesa/Condicions | Ajuda/PMF | Blog | Botiga | APIs | TinyCat | Biblioteques llegades | Crítics Matiners | Coneixement comú | 202,661,707 llibres! | Barra superior: Sempre visible