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Pig Boy's Wicked Bird
Doug Crandell
其他書名
A Memoir
出版Chicago Review Press, 2004
主題Biography & Autobiography / GeneralBiography & Autobiography / Literary FiguresBiography & Autobiography / Personal MemoirsLiterary Criticism / American / GeneralMedical / Emergency MedicineSocial Science / Customs & TraditionsSocial Science / Sociology / Rural
ISBN15565255249781556525520
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=qSljCgAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋This gritty tragicomic memoir takes place in one memorable year-1976, the Bicentennial, when Jimmy Carter ran for president and seven-year-old Doug Crandell severed 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. His older brother Darren reads pulp novels to him each night as he soaks his fingers in Epsom salts. His brothers urge him to "flip the Wicked Bird" any time another child makes fun of his "lobster-red hand." Doug shares his summer of healing in Wabash, Indiana, with humans and animals who've suffered life-changing traumas: a brutal grandfather gentled by stroke, a deaf dog with a blood-thirst for pig's ears, a tough-love mother coping with depression, a bevy of runt piglets saved from extermination. This is a story of love, loss, healing, and a family's relation with the land they love and know that they will lose. The writing sparkles and teases like the best fireworks display, and one can hardly believe that such a glorious, amazing story is true.