The Lone Surfer of Montana, Kansas: Stories
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ISBN: 0743263057 / Publisher: Touchstone, August 2005
A collection of short tales takes place on the rural back roads and remote back rooms of America and includes "Lie Big," in which a lovable liar regales others with tall tales; "How I Got Here," in which a prisoner writes an essay about what led to his incarceration; and the title story, in which a drifter finds meaning in his acquaintances with midwestern locals. By the author of Found. Original. 25,000 first printing.
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In The Lone Surfer of Montana, Kansas, Davy Rothbart's stories grow out of road trips and small towns and are populated by questionable heroes and gold-hearted thugs. Full of loneliness and hope, heartbreak and humor, Rothbart's tales blaze their way from midwestern farm fields to state prisons and border-town brothels. Much like the lost, tossed, and forgotten items Rothbart collected in his acclaimed book, Found, the stories in The Lone Surfer of Montana, Kansas capture the oddity, poetry, and dignity of everyday life.
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