Coop: A Family, a Farm, and the Pursuit of One Good Egg
by Perry, Michael
- Used
- very good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0061240443
- ISBN 13
- 9780061240447
- Seller
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New Castle, Colorado, United States
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About This Item
Harper Perennial, 2010. Trade paperback. Very Good. 16x83x126. The Book is in Very Good+ condition. 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.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Michael Patrick McCarty, Bookseller (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- SKU2010025666
- Title
- Coop: A Family, a Farm, and the Pursuit of One Good Egg
- Author
- Perry, Michael
- Format/Binding
- Trade paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0061240443
- ISBN 13
- 9780061240447
- Publisher
- Harper Perennial
- Place of Publication
- New York, New York
- Date Published
- 2010
- Size
- 16x83x126
- X weight
- 18 oz
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- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Trade Paperback
- Used to indicate any paperback book that is larger than a mass-market paperback and is often more similar in size to a hardcover...