Carrying Albert home : the somewhat true story of a man, his wife, and her alligator
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Carrying Albert home : the somewhat true story of a man, his wife, and her alligator
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- Carrying Albert home : the somewhat true story of a man, his wife, and her alligator
- Title remainder
- the somewhat true story of a man, his wife, and her alligator
- Statement of responsibility
- Homer Hickam
- Subject
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- trueAlligators
- Alligators as pets -- Fiction
- Automobile travel -- Fiction
- Biographical fiction
- trueCoal miners
- Coal miners -- Fiction
- trueDancers
- Domestic fiction
- trueFlorida
- Florida -- Fiction
- Historical fiction
- trueHistorical fiction
- Humorous fiction
- Humorous fiction
- trueHusband and wife
- Husband and wife -- Fiction
- trueLove stories
- Love stories
- Man-woman relationships -- Fiction
- trueMarriage
- trueMarried people
- trueMen/women relations
- Road fiction
- trueVoyages and travels
- trueWest Virginia
- trueWedding presents
- West Virginia -- Fiction
- trueWild animals as pets
- true20th century -- 1901 -- 2000
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Elsie Lavender and Homer Hickam (the father of the author) were high school classmates in the West Virginia coalfields, graduating just as the Great Depression began. When Homer asked for her hand, Elsie instead headed to Orlando where she sparked with a dancing actor named Buddy Ebsen (yes, that Buddy Ebsen). But when Buddy headed for New York, Elsie's dreams of a life with him were crushed and eventually she found herself back in the coalfields, married to Homer. Unfulfilled as a miner's wife, Elsie was reminded of her carefree days with Buddy every day because of his unusual wedding gift: an alligator named Albert she raised in the only bathroom in the house. When Albert scared Homer by grabbing his pants, he gave Elsie an ultimatum: "Me or that alligator!" After giving it some thought, Elsie concluded there was only one thing to do: Carry Albert home
- Cataloging source
- FMG
- Dewey number
- 813/.54
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- PS3558.I224
- LC item number
- C37 2015
- Literary form
- fiction
- Target audience
- adult
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