Magazine Article

Home & Away magazine
(the Kansas version of AAA magazine)
July/August 2002

Listing "essential summer reads"
Literary Kansas is by Sally M. Snell

Sally recommends the following books,
listed alphabetically by author's last name:

1. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
2. Daughter of the Eagle by Don Coldsmith, Emporia
3. The Last Cattle Drive by Robert Day
4. Bonepile by Gaylord Dold, Wichita
5. The Story of a Country Town by E.W. Howe, Atchison
6. Bus Stop by William Inge, Independence
7. The Price of the Prairie: A Story of Kansas by Margaret Hill McCarter, Topeka
8. The Learning Tree by Gordon Parks, Fort Scott
9. Prairie by Anna Lee Waldo
10. A Certain Rich Man by William Allen White, Emporia
11. The Revival by Max Yoho, Topeka

Excerpt: "The Revival by Topekan Max Yoho is a light-hearted (and at times bawdy) view of growing up mid-century in a small town in eastern Kansas. ... Yoho hits upon many of the small daily joys and miseries of youth from that era--the joy of stomping on a tin can just right so it seats itslef firmly on the hell and lets the wearer clack, clack, clack down the road, and the misery of running into the town bully."

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