From Swamp Yankee to Desert Rat (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781458392282)

The author manages to break all the "rules" of memoir writing in recounting in humorous fashion lessons learned from the small things in life: From selling fiddler crabs and quahogs as a youth in Wickford, RI., to ending up with an odd-shaped Christmas tree taken from the mountains outside Omak, Wash., to eluding rattlesnakes and bears as a (supposed) adult in Arizona. There is a clerk who won't sell him three comic books for 30 cents because he doesn't have a penny for the tax, a wonderful jar of peanut butter (with no peanut butter in it) for a Christmas present, a difficult Latin teacher at La Salle Academy, a true humorist publisher at the Omak Chronicle. Eventually he concludes that he spent four years earning a journalism degree to achieve the newspaper gold standard: writing at the sixth grade level. As a newsman of three decades, he discovers how orchardists magically produce three apple crops a year. And he is sent out to interview an actor he has never heard of -- Jeff Bridges. A fun read.

Author: Peter Pegnam
ISBN-10: 1458392287
ISBN-13: 9781458392282
Publisher: Lulu Press
Language: English
Published: 02/15/2011
Pages: 138
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.38lbs
Size: 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.30d