The publishers expect this to be a book for the and all ages and certainly considering the success of Jonathan Livingston Seagull there is justification here. The whole success of this slight book is predicated on just that since certainly you can anticipate what will happen under the foreordained circumstances - since Robert's father is a pig killer - an honest but literally stinking way to earn a living - and Robert is given a pig as a reward - "just enough pink to be sweet as candy" and to be called Pinky. Values - or just truths, homely and harsh, as well as feelings which are genuine and nice, and that well-schooled lesson about a time to live and a time to die and a time to put away childish things. And with a "nevermind of fuss" it asseverates not only the precepts of the "Plain People" which go "back to reason" but values which have almost gone out of style. Clean as a whistle, almost that first one, this deals with an earlier Robert Peck's growing up and coming of an age in a Shaker household in Learning, Vermont, round and about the time of Calvin Coolidge.
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