Doug Crandell, Author . Chicago Review $22.95 (272p) ISBN 978-1-55652-552-0
Set on a small hog farm in Indiana, this moving chronicle follows one year (1976) in the life of an impressionable seven-year-old and his hard-luck family. Young Crandell was a very plump child. According to family lore, he consistently gained...
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Doug Crandell, Author . Virgin $14.95 (211p) ISBN 978-0-7535-1299-9
Hobbie, the narrator of this endearing debut novel, prefers the company of his beloved mutt, Terry, to the companionship of most humans. Hobbie, who has a blistering case of chronic acne, and Kari, his obese girlfriend of 20 years, continually...
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Doug Crandell, Author . Virgin $14.95 (273p) ISBN 978-0-7535-1378-1
Somewhere between comedy and tragedy lies the second installment to Crandell's Beauty Knows No Pain trilogy (after The Flawless Skin of Ugly People
). Brad Orville is stuck in a rut in the middle of Witchfield County, Ga. He lives with his...
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Doug Crandell, Author . Northern Illinois Univ./Switchgrass $13.95 (235p) ISBN 978-0-87580-633-4
Crandall (Hairdos of the Mildly Depressed
) goes farmyard farce in this unfortunate tale of two teenaged brothers, their stunted father (left by their wayward mother), and a pair of gay pigs. Indeed, the discovery that the two newly purchased boars...
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Doug Crandell, Author Chicago Review Press $22.95 (250p) ISBN 978-1-55652-616-9
This sharp, assured memoir, a follow-up to Crandell's childhood account Pig Boy's Wicked Bird, is a blue-collar work diary-as-coming of age trial, covering the summer of 1990 in Lagro, Ind. One credit shy of becoming his family's first college...
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