Robert Newton Peck Summary

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 Zena Sutherland There's a homespun humor and an aura of nostalgia about [the] rural anecdotes [in Soup] but the first try at smoking, the confrontation with an irritated neig... Read more

Critical Essay by Edith C. Howley ["Fawn"] might be called an historical vignette, a character study, or a brief tale of the attack by the British on Fort Ticonderoga in 1758…. [... Read more

Critical Essay by Zena Sutherland [Fawn] explores the intricacies of divided allegiance during the French and Indian Wars, but it is often tediously repetitive, both in examining Fawn's childh... Read more

Critical Essay by John R. Pancella The opening paragraphs [of Wild Cat] describe a birth, with the mother licking and eating the membranes, followed by another birth, on dirty rags, of a kitten that ... Read more

Critical Essay by Beryl Robinson The author [of Bee Tree and Other Stuff] celebrates his boyhood on a Vermont farm in a book that explores childhood memories of school, family and friends, hard work,... Read more

Critical Essay by Willard M. Wallace "Rabbits and Redcoats" is Chapter Harrow's account of the part he and his friend Interest Wheelock play in Ethan Allen's capture of Fo... Read more

Critical Essay by Jill P. May Robert Newton Peck's early books brought an understanding of the realities of rural life to many youngsters. His characterization was sharp and his themes of prid... Read more

Critical Essay by George Gleason The supposedly humorous gimmick [in Patooie] is a watermelon-seed spitting contest in the small town of Willetsberg in the 1930's. Standing in for the local se... Read more

Critical Essay by Zena Sutherland The various incidents of [Trig Sees Red] are concerned with the firing of an elderly traffic policeman and the substitution of a hanging traffic light at Clodsburg&#... Read more

Critical Essay by Emily C. Farnsworth Peck dedicates Clunie to Professor Wilber Dorsett of Rollins College who inspired the story—then adds:       ... Read more

Critical Essay by Patricia Lee Gauch Robert Newton Peck has never been more the consummate storyteller than in ["Clunie", a] book about Clunie Finn, a retarded farm girl caught in a web... Read more

Critical Essay by Beryl Robinson Designed to stimulate interest in animal life in one small meadow, the author [of Path of Hunters: Animal Struggle in a Meadow] has described a considerable number of... Read more

Critical Essay by Zena Sutherland A first person story, set in rural Vermont at the turn of the century, [Millie's Boy] is told with enough vigor and period detail to compensate for the heavy ... Read more