About this title: In over his head with two pigs, a dozen chickens, and baby due any minute, the acclaimed author of "Truck: A Love Story" gives readers a humorous, heartfelt memoir of a new life in the country.
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Harper
Date Published: 2009-05-01
ISBN-13:9780061240430ISBN:0061240435
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Harper
Date Published: 2009-05-01
ISBN-13:9780061240430ISBN:0061240435
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Harpercollins
Date Published: 2009-05-01
ISBN-13:9780061240430ISBN:0061240435
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Harper
Date Published: 2009
ISBN-13:9780061240430ISBN:0061240435
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Harper
Date Published: 2009
ISBN-13:9780061240430ISBN:0061240435
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Binding: Hardback
Publisher: HARPER COLLINS
Date Published: 2009
ISBN-13:9780061240430ISBN:0061240435
Description: In over his head with two pigs, a dozen chickens, and baby due any minute, the acclaimed author of "Truck: A Love Story" gives readers a humorous, heartfelt memoir of a new life in the country. read more
"This review is going to be more about my failure as a reader than it is about Perry's success as a writer. He's warm and honest and loving and straight-laced and, well, annoying in his rectitude. He comes from a family that took in numberless foster children, many of whom died agonizing deaths. He hearkens back to his childhood with love and reverence, and he strives to raise his own children properly. He apologizes in advance for profanity (which at its worst, comprises "ass" for buttocks). He loves his wife with a tenderness not often found in modern literature. And still, he gives me a pain.
That being said, this is a rare and beautiful memoir- both honest and rigorous and frequently hilarious. I don't know why I'm all knee-jerky about his pious tone, but I am. Still, I have got to recommend this book, and recommend it wholeheartedly."
"An enjoyable account of the not-so-simple life down on the farm. He really gets revved up writing about building chicken houses and describing how to cut hay -- which may send readers flipping to the next chapter. I like his writing style and, being a guy about the same age myself with a young daughter (and receding hairline), I know the frame of reference from where he looks at the world."
"What a fantastic book. Each time I read a book by Michael Perry I swear it is better than the last one. The really ironic thing is I despise chickens, not just despise, but am actually afraid of them. (Long story involving a rooster) Oddly enough, by the time I was a quarter of the way through this book, I was asking my husband what he thought of getting some chickens. This book is more than a chicken buying guide and that is what has always endeared Michael Perry to me. His thoughts on his family, his children, and his wife are simply poetic and does something for my soul. I highly recommend this book and any other books by Michael Perry."
"this was the best book i've read in a loooooong time! i laughed...i even cried...and i drove my husband crazy by laughing out loud a ga-zillion times on the beach!"
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