This hilarious novel, the story of a wild romp across modern-day Kansas, is now available in a trade paperback edition.
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"Spangler Star Tukle is a Kansas cattleman with 6,000 acres and a low boiling point. (Tukle is so choleric that he empties a shotgun into a power mower that has offended him.) When the rancher decides to drive his 250 head of cattle to the Kansas City stockyards to save shipping costs, you can expect Murphy's Law to become 100 percent operative. . . . Atmospheric."--New York Times Book Review
"I [feel] honored and privileged to have the opportunity to express my enduring admiration for Robert Day and his delightfully readable, humorous, and plain-spoken novel, [which] I have been re-reading over and over for nearly three decades. . . . Day's lively portrait of his beloved home state of Kansas, often saddled by stereotypical images of being sternly Protestant, conservative, and teetotalling, instead becomes an example of a vibrant, varied society of free-wheeling individuals, rural and city men and women, who enjoy their tomato beer and whiskey and have strong opinions about what is wrong with the U.S. government and incorrect television and film versions of Kansas and the West."--Howard Lamar
"Bob Day's novel is like the man himself--ebullient, precise, Rabelaisian, witty. It's written in remarkably fine North American English. It wears its cowboy boots, as does the author himself, very comfortably and with a highly polished panache."--Anthony Burgess
Robert Day is professor of English and creative writing at Washington College in Chestertown Maryland.
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority!. Seller Inventory # S_412598308
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority!. Seller Inventory # S_385612186
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Seller: Winding Road Books, Ramona, KS, U.S.A.
Soft cover. Condition: As New. clean copy, gift inscription on first page. Seller Inventory # 001037
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Paper Back. Condition: Good. Seller Inventory # 47918
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Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. University Press of Kansas, Lawrence, KS. 1991. Softcover/Trade Wraps. Stated 7th Printing. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Near Fine; light tip bumping. No DJ. Pictorial card stock wraps. Wraps are not bent or folded; spine is not creased or split; text is secure in binding. 221 pp 8vo.This book is the comic tale of a prickly Kansas ranch family's (Spangler Star Tukle and his wife Opal) quixotic bid to drive a herd of cattle from Hays to Kansas City defying the truckers and the traffic as they drive their cattle to market the old-fashioned way Hays to the eastern stockyards. A clean very presentable copy. Seller Inventory # 011952
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Seller: Wonder Book, Frederick, MD, U.S.A.
Condition: Fair. Signed Copy . Inscribed by author on title page. Seller Inventory # I11OS-00128
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