The Moon Butter Route

Yoho, Max

ISBN 10: 0970816049 / ISBN 13: 9780970816047

Published by Dancing Goat Press, Topeka, KS, 2006

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As 12 year old Wally Grant is growing up in the southeast corner of Kansas, a rich mining area, known as he "Little Balkan," has attracted immigrants from many countries as well as American neighbors that find the Kansas laws on prohibition unbelievable. As WWII draws to a close Wally is meeting up with a bunch of moonshiners and bootleggers in a part of the state that makes the rough Kansas cow towns seem like preschool. Kansas humor at its best.

Seller Inventory # F1093

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Moon Butter Route
• Publisher: Dancing Goat Press, Topeka, KS
• Publication Date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0970816049
• ISBN 13: 9780970816047
• Binding: Soft cover
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: As New
• Signed: Inscribed by Author(s)

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Synopsis

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

About the Author

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.