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100 1 $aHickam, Homer H.,$d1943-$eauthor.
245 10 $aCarrying Albert home :$bthe somewhat true story of a man, his wife, and her alligator /$cHomer Hickam.
250 $aFirst edition.
264 1 $aNew York, NY :$bWilliam Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers,$c[2015]
264 4 $c©2015
300 $axvii, 398 pages :$billustrations ;$c24 cm
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500 $a"This book is a work of fiction"--verso.
500 $a"The long-awaited prequel to the bestselling memoir Rocket Boys"-- dust jacket.
520 $aElsie 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.
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650 0 $aAlligators as pets$vFiction.
650 0 $aAutomobile travel$vFiction.
650 0 $aCoal miners$vFiction.
651 0 $aFlorida$vFiction.
651 0 $aWest Virginia$vFiction.
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655 7 $aLove stories.$2gsafd
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