A Day No Pigs Would Die Summary
Robert Newton Peck

A Day No Pigs Would Die by Robert Newton Peck Robert Newton Peck grew up in a Shaker family on a Vermont farm during the 1930s and 1940s. His father supplemented the family income by working as a p... Read more

Robert Peck (born 1928) won critical and popular acclaim for his first novel, A Day No Pigs Would Die (1973). Critics lauded its unsentimental rendering of farm life and the often brutal realities of ... Read more

"I am tall, and awkward, and [a] stubborn Vermonter who wears mule-ear boots, a ten-gallon hat and what I like to think of as a country-boy grin."My favorite sport is curling; I play piano honky-tonk ... Read more

Critical Essay by Christopher Lehmann-haupt ["A Day No Pigs Would Die" is a charming and simple] memoir in the form of a novel about the author's upbringing in the Shaker traditio... Read more

Critical Essay by Pamela Marsh Inside almost every American and quite a few Europeans there's a farm lad trying to get out. The young dream of a machine-free life and organic bread, their elder... Read more

Critical Essay by Jonathan Yardley Robert Newton Peck has wasted few words in this modest and affecting little book ["A Day No Pigs Would Die"] … about a 12-year-old boy who learn... Read more

The central theme in A Day No Pigs Would Die is a coming of age that is prevalent throughout most young adult literature novels. This theme generally follows a consistent path; the central character, ... Read more