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Pigs Can't Swim: A Memoir

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Availability:In StockContributor:Helen PeppeSeries:Merloyd Lawrence BookPublish date:2016-01-26Pages:272
Language:EnglishPublisher:Da Capo PressISBN-13:9780306824234ISBN-10:030682423XUPC:9780306824234Book Category:Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Personal Memoirs, WomenSize:8.30 x 5.50 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.7011Product ID:SC19EMMDGG
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."
Language:EnglishPublisher:Da Capo PressISBN-13:9780306824234ISBN-10:030682423XUPC:9780306824234Book Category:Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Personal Memoirs, WomenSize:8.30 x 5.50 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.7011Product ID:SC19EMMDGG
Helen Peppe, a professional photographer specializing in horses and dogs, lives near Portland, Maine, with her husband, Eric, her children, four dogs, four rescued rabbits, four guinea pigs, and two destructive kittens.
Publisher: Da Capo Press

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