Book
Pigs can't swim : a memoir / Helen Peppe.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780306822728 (hardcover) :
- ISBN: 9780306822735 (paperback)
- Physical Description: xi, 257 pages ; 22 cm.
- Publisher: Cambridge, MA : Da Capo Press, [2014]
- Copyright: ©2014
Content descriptions
| General Note: | "A Merloyd Lawrence Book." |
Search for related items by subject
| Subject: | Peppe, Helen. Country life > Maine > Biography. Farm life > Maine > Biography. |
Available copies
- 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.
Holds
- 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cookstown Branch | 974.103092 Peppe | 31681002555803 | NONFIC | Available | - |
- Baker & Taylor
Recounts the author's haphazard youth as the youngest member of an eccentric, nine-child family on a hardscrabble Maine farm, where her siblings and her were raised in an atmosphere of sibling rivalry, poverty, male chauvinism and absurd interactions with their animals and pets. 30,000 first printing. - Baker & Taylor
Recounts the author's haphazard youth as the youngest member of an eccentric, nine-child family on a Maine farm, where she and her siblings were raised in an atmosphere of sibling rivalry, poverty, male chauvinism, and interactions with their farm animals and pets. - Perseus PublishingAn outrageous, hilarious, and touching memoir of childhood as the youngest of nine children in a hardscrabble, beyond-eccentric Maine family
- Perseus PublishingAn outrageous, hilarious, and touching memoir by the youngest of nine children in a hardscrabble, beyond-eccentric Maine family.
With everything happening on Helen Peppe's backwoods Maine farm, life was wild--and not just for the animals. Sibling rivalry, rock-bottom poverty, feral male chauvinism, sex in the hayloft: everything seemed--and was--out of control. In telling her wayward family tale, Peppe manages deadpan humor, an unerring eye for the absurd, and poignant compassion for her utterly overwhelmed parents. While her feisty resilience and candor will inevitably remind readers of Jeannette Walls or Mary Karr, Peppe's wry insight and moments of tenderness with family and animals are entirely her own. As Richard Hoffman, the author of Half the House: A Memoir puts it: "Pigs Can't Swim is an unruly, joyous troublemaker of a book."
