Pig Boy's wicked bird : a memoir /

This gritty tragicomic memoir is set in one memorable year, 1976, the Bicentennial, when Jimmy Carter ran for president and seven-year-old Doug Crandell lost two fingers in a farming accident. More than anything, Doug wants to shed his nickname, Pig Boy, and grow up to be a hog man like his father....

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Crandell, Doug
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : Chicago Review Press, ©2004.
Edición:1st ed.
Temas:
Crandell, Doug > Childhood and youth.
Crandell, Doug > Homes and haunts > Indiana > Wabash Region.
Crandell, Doug
2000-2099
Authors, American > 21st century > Biography.
Rural families > Indiana > Wabash Region.
Accident victims > Indiana > Biography.
Farm life > Indiana > Wabash Region.
Fingers > Wounds and injuries.
Écrivains américains > 21e siècle > Biographies.
Victimes d'accidents > Indiana > Biographies.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Literary.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Personal Memoirs.
Childhood and youth of a person
Accident victims
Authors, American
Farm life
Fingers > Wounds and injuries
Homes
Intellectual life
Manners and customs
Rural families
Wabash Region (Ind.) > Social life and customs.
Indiana > Intellectual life.
Indiana > Vie intellectuelle.
Indiana
Biographies
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Front Cover
  • Table of Contents
  • Introduction
  • Part I
  • 1 Who Is the Real Pig Boy?
  • 2 When Grandfathers Steal Pigs
  • 3 Our Lady of Electrical Lights
  • 4 Chores and Sex Ed
  • 5 Wicked Birds
  • 6 Pillow Therapy, Rocks Too
  • 7 First Soaks During Hee Haw
  • 8 A Glimpse of Jimmy
  • 9 And Then There Were Two
  • 10 Break-Fist at Noon
  • 11 It's Home and It's Weird
  • 12 Devil Worshippers
  • 13 Third-Person Mother Cometh
  • Part II
  • 14 Peanut and Other Runts
  • 15 Your Mother's in the Bicentennial Bathroom
  • 16 Dot Matrix Bills and the Fourth of July.
  • 17 He's Saying His Runty Good-Byes
  • 18 Winesburg, Ohio and Homemade Shirts
  • 19 Run, Joe, Run
  • 20 Fear Far from I-465
  • 21 If Thy Hand Offends Thee, Cut It Off
  • 22 Taking the Meringue Ridge Back Home
  • Part III
  • 23 Colored Glass
  • 24 Buy These
  • 25 The Uncle Sam Outfit
  • 26 Pig Boy on the Lam
  • 27 Don't Go Parading My Heart Around
  • 28 Poisoned Heart
  • 29 Ear Envy
  • 30 Watching Roots in an Inaugural Blizzard
  • Epilogue
  • Acknowledgments.

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