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- Number of Pages: 288
- ISBN: 0061240435
- WAPI (Tower ID): 112522312
- Release Date: May 1, 2009
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- Tower.com Sales Rank: #52178 in Books (See Top 100 Books Bestsellers)
- #1292 in Biography & Autobiography (See Top 100 Biography & Autobiography Bestsellers)
- #28 in Personal Memoirs (See Top 100 Personal Memoirs Bestsellers)
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Product DescriptionRun a Quick Search on "Coop" by Michael Perry to Browse Related Products:Browse more products related to "Coop"Browse more products related to "Michael Perry"Review"Written in engaging prose, COOP is the enjoyable chronicle of a year in the life of a middle-aged man, his wife and stepdaughter....[It] succeeds as an enjoyable visit to a rural homestead alongside an amiable and benignly quirky companion. For readers seeking such a diversion, it will be a pleasurable read." "Perry writes vividly about rural life; peck at any sentence...and you'll find a poetic evocation of barnyard grace." "Because Perry is an adept storyteller, he balances the sweeter sections with passages evoking the sting of loss and grief--not unduly, but enough to recall the impermanence of life and the swiftness of its transformations. Dryly humorous, mildly neurotic, and just plain soulful--a book that might even make you want to buy a few chickens." (starred review) "This book is well worth reading...as a cautionary tale before you go out and buy a pair of pigs, or set about waiting for a flock of reluctant chickens to lay." Publisher's noteThe author of Truck: A Love Story recounts his haphazard forays into farm life and parenthood, an effort marked by his Christian fundamentalist upbringing, his wife's decision to give birth at home, the death of a close friend, and a pair of backside-biting pigs. In over his head with two pigs, a dozen chickens, and a baby due any minute, the acclaimed author of "Truck: A Love Story" gives us a humorous, heartfelt memoir of a new life in the country. Last seen sleeping off his wedding night in the back of a 1951 International Harvester pickup, Michael Perry is now living in a rickety 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, Perry plumbs his unorthodox childhood--his city-bred parents took in more than a hundred foster children while running a ramshackle dairy farm--for clues to how to proceed as a farmer, a husband, and a father. And when his daughter Amy starts asking about God, Perry is called upon to answer questions for which he's not quite prepared. He muses on his upbringing in an obscure fundamentalist Christian sect and weighs the long-lost faith of his childhood against the skeptical alternative ("You cannot toss your seven-year-old a copy of "Being and Nothingness""). Whether Perry is recalling his childhood ("I first perceived my father as a farmer the night he drove home with a giant lactating Holstein tethered to the bumper of his Ford Falcon") or what it's like to be bitten in the butt while wrestling a pig ("two firsts in one day"), "Coop" is filled with the humor his readers have come to expect. But Perry 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. Alternately hilarious, tender, and as real as pigs in mud, "Coop" is suffused with a contemporary desire to reconnect with the earth, with neighbors, with meaning . . . and with chickens. AnnotationWisconsin chicken farmer, essayist, and humorist Michael Perry writes with wit and warmth about the lessons and occasional ludicrousness of life on a farm. He also lovingly recounts his unconventional childhood when he was raised by a Christian fundamentalist sect on a dairy farm, surrounded by dozens of siblings and foster siblings. If You Enjoy "Coop (Hardcover)", May We Also Recommend:Customer Reviews for "Coop (Hardcover)" by Michael Perry (Author)There are no customer reviews yet. Be the first to write a review! Personal Memoirs BestsellersBiography & Autobiography Bestselling Books
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