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Phil Stong |
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New York Times Book Review: "[W]elcome relief from the Depression....[A] novel with plenty of gusto and relish for life in it." |
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Format: Paperback, 266
Publisher: Univ of Iowa Pr (August 01, 1996)
Measurements: 8.25"(h) x 5.75"(w) x 1"(d), 0.8 lbs.
ISBN: 9780877455691 |
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First published in the spring of 1932, Phil Stong's whimsical and wise State Fair was an immediate success. Hollywood released a film that fall starring Will Rogers as Abel Frake and a champion hog from an Iowa farm as the famous Blue Boy, "the finest Hampshire stud boar in the world". In 1945 Rodgers and Hammerstein's musical motion picture launched such memorable songs as "It Might as Well Be Spring". In 1962 a movie musical with Pat Boone and Ann-Margret was set at the Texas State Fair. And in 1995 a highly entertaining adaptation of the 1945 musical premiered at the Iowa State Fair before moving on to Broadway. This paperback edition of State Fair, with a new foreword by Robert McCown, reprints the original novel in all its exuberance and freshness. On the surface State Fair simply recounts the adventures of the close-knit Frake family at the Iowa State Fair in the late 1920s, but Stong's universal morality tale has much to reveal to anyone willing to read between the lines. The book shocked some reader |
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