| Pigs Can't Swim: A Memoir Contributor(s): Peppe, Helen (Author) |
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ISBN: 030682423X ISBN-13: 9780306824234 Publisher: Da Capo Press OUR PRICE: $13.49 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 2016 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs - Biography & Autobiography | Women |
| Dewey: B |
| Series: Merloyd Lawrence Book |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5.5" W x 8.3" (0.70 lbs) 272 pages |
| Themes: - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: An 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. |