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Perry Michael
Perry Michael - Coop A Year Of Poultry Pigs And Parenting - Paperback
Perry Michael - Coop A Year Of Poultry Pigs And Parenting - Paperback
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Description: You can read Michael Perry's Coop as an outrageously funny comedy about a semi - hapless neophyte navigating the pitfalls (and pratfalls) of the farming life. Please do in fact. But scratch a little deeper past Perry's lusciously entertaining and epigrammatic prose his ultra - charming combo of Midwestern earnestness and serrated wit and you ll find a reflective sincere and surprisingly touching - at times even heart - cracking - story about a man struggling to put down roots. Jonathan Miles author of Want Not In over his head with two pigs a dozen chickens and a baby due any minute the acclaimed author of Population: 485 gives us a humorous heartfelt memoir of a new life in the country. Living in a ramshackle Wisconsin farmhouse faced with thirty - seven acres of fallen fences and overgrown fields and informed by his pregnant wife that she intends to deliver their baby at home Michael Perry plumbs his unorthodox childhood for clues to how to proceed as a farmer a husband and a father. Whether he's remembering his younger days when his city - bred parents took in sixty or so foster children while running a sheep and dairy farm or describing what it's like to be bitten in the butt while wrestling a pig Perry flourishes in his trademark humor. But he also writes from the quieter corners of his heart chronicling experiences as joyful as the birth of his child and as devastating as the death of a dear friend.
Title: Coop A Year Of Poultry Pigs And Parenting
Author(s): Perry Michael
Publisher: Harpercollins
Barcode: 9780061240447
Pages: 368 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 5/4/2010
Description: You can read Michael Perry's Coop as an outrageously funny comedy about a semi - hapless neophyte navigating the pitfalls (and pratfalls) of the farming life. Please do in fact. But scratch a little deeper past Perry's lusciously entertaining and epigrammatic prose his ultra - charming combo of Midwestern earnestness and serrated wit and you ll find a reflective sincere and surprisingly touching - at times even heart - cracking - story about a man struggling to put down roots. Jonathan Miles author of Want Not In over his head with two pigs a dozen chickens and a baby due any minute the acclaimed author of Population: 485 gives us a humorous heartfelt memoir of a new life in the country. Living in a ramshackle Wisconsin farmhouse faced with thirty - seven acres of fallen fences and overgrown fields and informed by his pregnant wife that she intends to deliver their baby at home Michael Perry plumbs his unorthodox childhood for clues to how to proceed as a farmer a husband and a father. Whether he's remembering his younger days when his city - bred parents took in sixty or so foster children while running a sheep and dairy farm or describing what it's like to be bitten in the butt while wrestling a pig Perry flourishes in his trademark humor. But he also writes from the quieter corners of his heart chronicling experiences as joyful as the birth of his child and as devastating as the death of a dear friend.
Title: Coop A Year Of Poultry Pigs And Parenting
Author(s): Perry Michael
Publisher: Harpercollins
Barcode: 9780061240447
Pages: 368 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 5/4/2010