{"product_id":"from-swamp-yankee-to-desert-peter-pegnam-9781458392282","title":"From Swamp Yankee to Desert Rat","description":"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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Peter Pegnam\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1458392287\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781458392282\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Lulu Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/15\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 138\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.38lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.30d","brand":"Peter Pegnam","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48442263601407,"sku":"9781458392282","price":14.48,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_333881e1-17fd-4cc4-a3ad-02c06e27735f.jpg?v=1777196215","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/from-swamp-yankee-to-desert-peter-pegnam-9781458392282","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}