TY  - BOOK
AU  - Crandell,Doug
TI  - The Peculiar Boars of Malloy
T2  - Switchgrass Books
SN  - 9781501757853
U1  - 813/.6 23
PY  - 2021///]
CY  - Ithaca, NY : 
PB  - Cornell University Press, 
KW  - Swine
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Fiction & Short Stories
KW  - Literary Studies
KW  - Midwest
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - gay rights, animal rights, midwestsern humor, satire, coming of age
N1  - Frontmatter --; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS --; PROLOGUE --; PART ONE --; PART TWO --; PART THREE --; EPILOGUE; restricted access
N2  - This Sherwood Anderson award-winning farcical novel follows two teenage boys living on a farm in rural Indiana. Their father—a diminutive man and the laughingstock of their small town—purchases two boars in an attempt to impress his neighbors and demonstrate, by proxy, his masculinity. The boars, however, turn out to be resolutely gay and deeply committed to each other, setting off a ridiculous chain of events that brings the spotlight and accompanying media circus to Malloy. In the midst of all of the madness is the boys' ongoing, and at once heartbreaking and hilarious, quest to find their wayward mother through a series of touching and humorous flashbacks. Disappointed in their pitiful father, the boys cling to an unrealistic fantasy of their mother, who is in actuality a promiscuous drifter. Crandell's depiction of the gay boars provides much of the book's humor and, unexpectedly, its moral compass as he weaves significant and subtly articulated themes of animal rights and gay rights. The Peculiar Boars of Malloy captures the best traditions of American satire, while turning the conventions of the coming-of-age novel on its head. Crandell's heart and humor will be appreciated by lovers of satire and animals and those readers possessed of a uniquely Midwestern sense of the ridiculous
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501757853
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781501757853
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781501757853/original
ER  -