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The Lone Surfer of Montana, Kansas: Stories

by Davy Rothbart · 2002

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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.

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Much like the lost, tossed, and forgotten items Rothbart collected in his acclaimed book, Found,the stories in The Lone Surfer of Montana, Kansascapture the oddity, poetry, and dignity of everyday life.

Setting
2000s
Audience
adult
Length
short · 176 pages
Form
short stories

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