The Moon Butter Route - Softcover

Yoho, Max

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0970816049 ISBN 13: 9780970816047

Verlag: Dancing Goat Pr, 2005

Inhaltsangabe

Max Yoho's work is fictional, but always has the feel and tone of reality--the way his characters speak and move and live. This is original, enjoyable writing and most of all, it's fun. Almost everything that Max writes about has a sizable amount of humor. It's warm and genuine and the truth is somehow interjected into it in mysterious ways. Max has a way of spinning a yarn that no one else seems to have captured in recent years.--quoted from nomination for Kansas Governor's Arts Award 2006 by Bill Shaffer, Producer/Director, KTWU Channel 11

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Born in 1934 in Colony, Kansas, Max grew up in small towns. Moving with his family to Atchison at age 10, he soon learned that delights and adventures along the Missouri River awaited just outside the well-oiled hinges of his bedroom window screen. Max graduated from Topeka High School and attended Washburn University in Topeka, where he was a feature writer for The Washburn Review.A former milk delivery boy himself, after a thirty-eight year career as a machinist Max retired in 1992 to begin a new career as a writer. His first novel, THE REVIVAL, won the J. Donald Coffin Memorial Award of the Kansas Authors Club in 2002. FELICIA, THESE FISH ARE DELICIOUS, his collection of poems, essays and short stories, was nominated for this same award in 2005.

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"...Kansas humor at its best." Roy Bird, Kansas Center for the Book, in Kansas Traveler on author Max Yoho [Fall 2005 issue] Twelve-year-old Wally Gant is growing up in the southeast corner of Kansas. This rich mining area, known as the Little Balkans, has attracted immigrants from many countries. Used to having a little wine with their meals and their sacraments, these newcomers, along with many of their American neighbors, find the Kansas laws on prohibition unbelievable. There must be some mistake! Still, as some wag said, Kansans will vote dry as long as they can stagger to the polls. As WWII draws to a close, Wally's mother slaves in the kitchen preparing stuffed fried weenies for Thanksgiving dinner. His father plots to have the courthouse moved a few feet to the south to make room for a therapeutic steam whistle. At Strang Dairy, Wally's first paying job, he meets up with a bunch of moonshiners and bootleggers some lovable and some not-so-lovable. In the Great American Tradition, Wally finds love and fortune in a part of the state that makes the rough Kansas cow towns seem like preschool.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Dancing Goat Pr
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2005
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0970816049
• ISBN 13: 9780970816047
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 194
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