The Cooter Farm

By Matthew F. Jones

Book Overview

"When young Ollie Cooter tries to come to grips with the often crazy, sometimes sinister, world of his family's dairy farm in upstate New York, he gradually learns the complexities of human nature.... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1562829912
• ISBN13: 9781562829919
• Release Date: January 1992
• Publisher: Hyperion Books
• Length: 305 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.4" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Kept my interest but not the most gripping of family stories

The Cooters of upper New York are a family on the verge of falling apart. Hooter Cooter, the patriarch of the bunch, rules the family with cruelty and ruthlessness, ridiculing and attacking those who don't fall in line. While this novel has been compared with To Kill a Mockingbird,I didn't find it all that compelling and there were parts that I found hard to get through (especially the detailed scenes of incest). This one also has all the earmarks of a book written by a newer writer, with sections alternating between sentimentality and dark humor....not always in the smoothest manner. The author shows promise but this one isn't going to have a permanent place on my bookshelf.