Robert Newton Peck
Hardcover | Pages: 160 pages Rating: 3.55 | 9080 Users | 846 Reviews
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| Original Title: | A Day No Pigs Would Die |
| ISBN: | 0394482352 (ISBN13: 9780394482354) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | A Day No Pigs Would Die #1 |
| Setting: | Pennsylvania(United States) |
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Out of a rare American tradition, sweet as hay, grounded in the gentle austerities of the Book of Shaker, and in the Universal countryman's acceptance of birth, death, and the hard work of wresting a life from the land comes this haunting novel of a Vermont farm boyhood.In the daily round of his thirteenth year, as the seasons turn and the farm is tended, the boy—whose time is the only-yesterday of Calvin Coolidge, whose people are the Plain People living without "frills" in the Shaker Way—becomes a man.
That is all, and it is everything. The boy is mauled by Apron, the neighbor's ailing cow whom he helps, alone, to give birth. The grateful farmer brings him a gift—a newborn pig. His father at first demurs ("We thank you, Brother Tanner," said Papa, "but it's not the Shaker Way to take frills for being neighborly. All that Robert done was what any farmer would do for another") but is persuaded. Rob keeps the pig, names her, and gives her his devotion... He wrestles with grammar in the schoolhouse. He hears rumors of sin. He is taken—at last—to the Rutland Fair. He broadens his heart to make room even for Baptists. And when his father, who can neither read nor cipher, whose hands are bloodied by his trade, whose wisdom and mastery of country things are bred in the bone, entrusts Rob with his final secret, the boy makes the sacrifice that completes his passage into manhood.
All is told with quiet humor and simplicity. Here are lives lived by earthy reason—in a novel that, like a hoedown country fiddler's tune, rings at the same time with both poignancy and cheer.
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| Title | : | A Day No Pigs Would Die (A Day No Pigs Would Die #1) |
| Author | : | Robert Newton Peck |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 160 pages |
| Published | : | December 12th 1972 by Knopf (first published 1972) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Young Adult. Classics. Historical. Historical Fiction. Childrens. Academic. School |
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Ratings: 3.55 From 9080 Users | 846 ReviewsJudgment Containing Books A Day No Pigs Would Die (A Day No Pigs Would Die #1)
A great coming of age story about young Rob Peck, a 12-year old kid. I can imagine why people are criticizing this book - some disturbing scenes involving animal slaughter, 'rape' and what may be perceived as sexism.However, the story is poignant and moving, and seems to convey the realities of a boy on the verge of becoming a man. Due to sheer chance, Rob gets to own Pinky, a cute little pig who becomes his best friend ever. From then on, life changes and culminates in Rob's coming of age.I am amazed at many of the negative opinions regarding this book. It is very well written, the author balances humor with realism and emotional content. Although there are some disturbing scenes, they are not fictional violence, but a part of the life of the time and place. My book club read this as adults and many of them were more upset at the scenes than the students who read the book. Sometimes as adults we seem to read more into things than children do. Weasling the dogs was very hard for
I wasn't sure if I should put this on my "memoirs" shelf as well, as Robert Peck uses his own name, along with those of his father, mother, etc... However, it's catagorized as "historical fiction." Any thoughts on this anyone?I haven't read this book since high school and junior high school, but thought I would pick it up again because, well because it's been so long.I found the dialogue in chapter three very similar to Robert Frost 's poem The Mending Wall Yes, good fences make good
*A spoiler or two ahead, but nothing (in my mind) that warrants spoiler tags.I remember reading this book when I was in 7th grade, and liking it then. It's one of those books from Junior High that stuck with me - like To Build a Fire (7th grade), Hatchet (8th grade), To Kill a Mockingbird, (9th grade)...I liked it then, but the chapters I remembered most (and found horrifying) were not the chapters that stuck out to me this time. ...I had remembered the weaseling, in particular.Instead of
I started reading this, considering it for a high school American Literature class, and didn't even finish. The coming-of-age theme and rural farm setting are fine, but they are depicted better in other books I think. In some ways this seemed like the Yearling all ever again. But what made it worse was the sexual violence graphically described between the animals--and reading the first chapter of the sequel shows the exact same theme in that book as well. This very well may be a realistic
"'Never miss a chance', Papa had once said, 'to keep your mouth shut.'" A Day No Pigs Would Die, P. 91 Here is truly one of the most memorable narrative voices in modern young adult literature. Robert Peck's life as the only surviving son of a quiet, unassuming Shaker family isn't exactly fraught with action and adventure, but it sure seems that way. I think that is because of the power embedded in the deep emotional moments of his family's life, a life that adheres completely to the Shaker
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