Coop

April 19, 2009

Coop_pb_cThis 2009 Midwest Booksellers’ Choice Award Winner is now in paperback!

COOP
A Family,  a Farm, and the Pursuit of One Good Egg
by Michael Perry

Harper Perennial / HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN 978-0-06-124044-7
$14.99 Trade Paperback
On sale May 4, 2010

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Featured on our Twin Cities Live WHAT TO READ NEXT book segment on June 7!

Visit Mike’s website at www.sneezingcow.com !

And don’t miss Mike’s new music CD from Amble Down Records – TINY PILOT 
– also a Midwest Connections Pick!

MBA Booksellers — See new sign and shelf-talker downloads below.

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COOP
A Year of Poultry, Pigs, and Parenting
by Michael Perrycoophc-cover

HarperCollins Publishers
www.harpercollins.com
ISBN 978-0-06-124043-0
$25.99 Hardcover
April 21, 2009
Memoir / Family Life
Author and his family live in rural Northwestern Wisconsin

2009 Midwest Booksellers’ Choice Award Winner for Nonfiction!
A Heartland Indie Bestseller!

The often hilarious and always deeply heartfelt new memoir from the bestselling, award-winner author of TRUCK: A LOVE STORY, POPULATION: 485, and OFF MAIN STREET.  Here’s a little teaser –
“I delight as usual in having Amy as my co-pilot. Bombing down a country road in a pickup truck with my daughter has become one of the signal joys of fatherhood. Throw a couple of dead pigs in the back and you’ve got yourself a Hallmark card on wheels.”

“Michael Perry affirms the goodness and ridiculousness of modern life. Whether he is wrestling pigs or moon gazing in winter, Perry melts the icy chill off our hearts and make us snort with laughter. His honest observations detail the wonder and burden of farm life……If ever there were a book of pigs, parent and poultry to read, COOP is it.  Accept no imitations! ”
– Sarah Bagby, Watermark Books & Cafe, Wichita, KS

“Are you tired of memoirs about dysfunctional families, eating disorders, and adultery? Me too. Luckily, we have COOP, the latest book by Michael Perry, to break the cycle. Perry lives life with his eyes wide open, choosing to dwell on beauty, joy and wonder rather than, well… all that other stuff. (Heck, Perry even gets along with his wife’s ex!) And if you’ve read Population 485 or Truck, I don’t have to tell you:  Michael Perry will have you laughing out loud on just about every page.”
– Dave Mallmann, Buyer, Next Chapter Bookshop, Mequon, WI

“You can read Michael Perry’s COOP as an outrageously funny comedy about a semi-hapless neophyte navigating the pitfalls (and pratfalls) of the farming life. Please do, in fact. But scratch a little deeper, past Perry’s lusciously entertaining and epigrammatic prose, his ultra-charming combo of Midwestern earnestness and serrated wit, and you’ll find a reflective, sincere, and surprisingly touching-at times, even heart-cracking-story about a man struggling to put down roots.”
- Jonathan Miles, author of Dear American Airlines

Featured in the 2009 MBA Catalog –
Books – A Reader’s Catalog
– at participating MBA member bookstores!

Buy this book from your favorite locally owned and operated Midwest independent bookseller!  Click here for the directory of our member bookstores.







MBA Bookseller Information

For more information about the paperback edition of COOP, please contact your HarperCollins sales rep.  Order from HarperCollins or your preferred wholesaler.

If you would like to inquire about publicity and events for author Michael Perry for the paperback edition of  COOP, please contact Meredith Rusu in HarperCollins Publicity, meredith.rusu@harpercollins.com , 212-207-7301.

MBA Booksellers: earn up to $100 in rebates for promoting this book!  See the marketing information and rebate form below.

Downloads — New materials for the paperback!

About the Book

Mike Perry really needs no introduction to booksellers who sell his books by the pickup truckload and who voted his TRUCK: A LOVE STORY a 2007 Midwest Booksellers’ Choice Award winner. We know you’re going to launch COOP onto the Heartland Indie Bestseller List in record time, too!  But before you dive into the book itself, here’s some additional useful information ……

“Our favorite home-spun memoirist is back with his heartfelt, moving, and always hilarious recollections of his new life on ‘the farm’ with a brand-new  baby and, of course, his long-awaited coop of chickens. A delight.”
– Diane Gressman, Books & Company, Oconomowoc, WI

 ”Beneath the flannel surface of this deer-hunting, truck-loving badger is the soul of a poet.” – The Chicago Tribune

 ”COOP made me want to 1. Get chickens immediately, 2. Always eat popcorn on Sundays with a lot of people who love each other and also love popcorn, 3. Birth a baby into a blue tub full of water, and the easy part, 4. Treasure the Wisconsin writer who is funny and lyrical and wise and tender, and sometimes all at once.”
– Jane Hamilton, author of LAURA RIDER’S MASTERPIECE and A MAP OF THE WORLD

 Newly installed with his wife and young daughter in a rickety Wisconsin farmhouse with thirty-seven acres of overgrown farmland, a handful of chickens on order, a pig pen to build, and a baby due to be born in the upstairs bedroom (”The first time my wife proposed this, I laughed in a Hahaha! Good one! sort of way…”), Mike plumbs his unorthodox farm family and obscure fundamentalist Christian sect upbringing for clues to navigating the present. 

He moves easily between rural reflection (”The hills are a green divan buttoned with clusters of bloom.”) and roughneck humor (”Today a dog bit me grievously upon the ass…I was wrestling a pig at the time.”), while telling a story that speaks directly to a growing number of Americans who are wondering if the future might be best addressed with a backyard full of chickens. 

finalauthorphotoperrymike About the Author

Michael Perry is also the author of TRUCK: A LOVE STORY, POPULATION 485, and OFF MAIN STREET. He is a contributing editor to Men’s Health, and his work has appeared in numerous publications, including Esquire, the New York Times Magazine, Salon and the Utne Reader.  He lives in northwest Wisconsin with his family. Visit his hilarious website at www.sneezingcow.com!

Midwest Connections Marketing Plans

  • $100 in REBATES from MBA for display photos, ads, features in your newsletters, e-newsletters, and on your store website, and using this book with your book clubs and reading groups – print out the REBATE FORM above and follow instructions.
  • Contact the publisher to inquire about events and/or phoners with the author.
  • Banners and Midwest Connections page for the book on the MBA website.
  • Flyer/sign PDF file and other materials provided by the publisher.
  • Reading copies of COOP available from HarperCollins and MBA – contact the MBA office if you need a book.
  • Print ad you can run in your local paper – earn a rebate from MBA for your ad!
  • Midwest Connections stickers, shelf-talkers, signs, bookmarks for in-store displays – earn a display rebate, too.

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