Oh, Vulgar Wind: A Sympathetic Overview of the Common Fart

Steve Pitt is a Toronto-based freelance writer and an award-winning journalist. He has written many young adult and children's books, including Day of the Flying Fox: The True Story of World War II Pilot Charley Fox.

Farts are normal; farting is healthy. The average human being produces
three litres of flatus a day. After Scott quickly exhausts the meagre
store of medical facts and throws in a few historical opinions from such
notable minds as Pythagoras, St. Augustine, Chaucer, Jonathan Swift, and
Mark Twain, he is forced to pad the rest of his book with puns and
endnotes. It is hard to determine the market for this book. It might,
with its medical references, provide comfort to those who think they
suffer from excess internal gas. The book’s pseudo self-help cover and
mock Shakespearean title may also prevent it from being automatically
shelved, where it belongs, next to Turning Forty and Great Italian Jokes
at your local bookstore.