Pig Boy''s Wicked Bird - A Memoir

Informationen zum Autor Doug Crandell is a widely published writer whose stories have appeared in the Evansville Literary Review , the Sherwood Anderson Review , and forthcoming in Smithsonian Magazine . He is the recipient of a Sherwood Anderson Writers Grant and a winner of the Night Train Firebox, Pig Iron Malt, River City, and other fiction contests. He is the author of Man Vs. Nature . He lives in Smyrna, Georgia. Klappentext 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; Introduction: Ride the High Country or "They Went Thataway"; Cowboy Codes: Straight & Pure & All Boy; When We were Young: Nostalgia & the Cowboy Hero; Arms & the Man: The Friendly Gun; Give Me My Boots & Saddles: Camp Cowboy; Tall in the Saddle: Romance on the Range; White Hats & White Heroes: Who Is That Other Guy?; Virgin Land: Landscape! Nature! & Masculinity; Corporate Cowboys & the Shaping of a Nation; Postscript - The Frontiersman (1938); List of Films Mentioned; References; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Doug Crandell, Doug Crandell
• Publisher: Chicago Review Press
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 12 to 17
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.09.2004
• EAN: 9781556525520
• ISBN: 978-1-55652-552-0
• No. of pages: 272
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies