Carrying Albert Home: The Somewhat True Story of a Man, His Wife, and Her Alligator

by Homer Hickam

Book Overview

Big Fish meets The Notebook in this emotionally evocative story about a man, a woman, and an alligator that is a moving tribute to love, from the New York Times bestselling author of the award-winning memoir Rocket Boys--the basis of the movie October Sky. 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,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0062325892
• ISBN13: 9780062325891
• Release Date: October 2015
• Publisher: William Morrow & Company
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.1" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

Tall Tales

This " Somewhat True Story" is full of Tall Tales. Its a cute story but I found it to be boring at times. I find it hard to believe a bank robbery, explosion of a sock mill, bootlegging, kidnapping, serial killer, ghost, and crime duo just to name a few, all happened to one couple and their alligator & chicken all in a two week period. I appreciate the photos in the back of the book, interestingly there are no photos of Albert. Things that make you go hmmmmmm.