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Touchstone, August 2005
Trade Paperback, 176 pages
ISBN-10: 0743263057
ISBN-13: 9780743263054
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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.
Much like the lost, tossed, and forgotten items Rothbart collected in his acclaimed book, Found, the stories in The Lone Surfer of Montana, Kansas capture the oddity, poetry, and dignity of everyday life.
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"Davy writes with his whole heart. These stories are crushing."
-- Arthur Miller
"It's always exciting to discover a talented new writer. Davy Rothbart writes with such energy, wit, and heart."
-- Judy Blume
Davy Rothbart is a prodigiously talented young writer, and I would happily read anything he writes. His stories are full of a strange nervous energy in which wisdom is also, somehow, always visible."
-- Charles Baxter, author of The Feast of Love and Saul and Patsy
"I believe in Davy. He is a force to be reckoned with."
-- Ira Glass, host of public radio's This American Life
SignOn San Diego, June 20, 2009
...notes found in gutters or at roadside turnouts, photos that didn't make it into albums. Its co-creator, Davy Rothbart, who clearly loves his work as an editor on the magazine, has extended the Found franchise since the magazine debuted in ...
National Post, May 28, 2009
...By Mark Medley, National Post While walking through Kensington Market with his brother Peter, Davy Rothbart spots a rack of vintage basketball jerseys outside a storefront. They cross the street and make a beeline for the shop. ?The more ...
Time Out Chicago, May 21, 2009
...the road when he?s not working in film. (He?s currently adapting pieces of his book The Lone Surfer of Montana, Kansas into a screenplay with Steve Buscemi, who will direct the project next year in Chicago.) We caught up with Rothbart in ...
Davy Rothbart's Books
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Requiem for a Paper BagA new twist on the national bestseller Found, where well-known actors, musicians, and celebrities share the stories of their most fascinating finds.Read More -
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