Author: Will Cuppy
Publisher: David R Godine
Keywords: book, nonpareil, wombat, attract
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 2001-10-01
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 1567921566
ISBN-13: 9781567921564

Will Cuppy is one of the greatest humorists this country has produced and is still (despite eleven printings of his imperishable The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody) too little known. Here is one of his three classic "How-To’s," considering notable birds and animals whose habits (and often existence) seem to have disturbed Cuppy ("Birds Who Can’t Even Fly," "Optional Insects," "Octopuses and Those Things"), as well as more mundane creatures like the frog, the gnat, and the moa, who have no visible vices but whose virtues are truly awful. Spanning the breadth of the animal

Author: Will Cuppy
Publisher: David R Godine
Keywords: extinct
Number of Pages: 136
Published: 2008-08-30
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 1567923658
ISBN-13: 9781567923650

In these forty brief essays, the perennially perturbed Will Cuppy turns his unflinching attention on those members of the animal kingdom whose habits are disagreeable, whose appearances are repellent, and whose continued existence is not necessarily a foregone conclusion. He is not - decidedly not - without reason. (The pike is pretty nasty as fish go, don’t you agree?)And while Cuppy may frequently leave in his wake more questions than answers, we surely owe him a debt of gratitude for at least asking. After all, someone has to consider the distinctions between Stoats and Ermines, or wh