Pigs Can't Swim, 9780306824234
Paperback
An outrageous, hilarious, and touching memoir of childhood as the youngest of nine children in a hardscrabble, beyond-eccentric Maine family

Pigs Can't Swim

a memoir

  • Paperback

    272 pages

  • Release Date

    25 January 2016

Summary

An outrageous, hilarious, and touching memoir by the youngest of nine children in a hardscrabble, beyond-eccentric Maine family. With everything happening on Helen Peppe’s backwoods Maine farm, life was wild- and not just for the animals. Sibling rivalry, rock-bottom poverty, feral male chauvinism, sex in the hayloft: everything seemed- and was- out of control. In telling her wayward family tale, Peppe manages deadpan humour, an unerring eye for the absurd, and poignant compassion for her utt…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780306824234
ISBN-10:030682423X
Series:A Merloyd Lawrence Book
Author:Helen Peppe
Publisher:Hachette Books
Imprint:Da Capo Press Inc
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:272
Release Date:25 January 2016
Weight:326g
Dimensions:210mm x 140mm x 18mm
About The Author

Helen Peppe

Helen Peppe, a professional photographer specializing in horses and dogs, lives near Portland, Maine, with her husband, Eric, her children, four dogs, four rescued rabbits, four guinea pigs, and two destructive kittens.

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