Kansas in August

by Patrick Gale

Book Overview

Patrick Gale's KANSAS IN AUGUST is a witty, warm novel of childhood and abandonment 'Modern, excellent and sympathetic' Stephen FryMusical-obsessed Hilary Metcalfe, abandoned by his lover Rufus on his... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0006545467
• ISBN13: 9780006545460
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: Not Avail
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.

Customer Reviews

A TEASER only 160 pages

A quirky too short story about a brother (gay) and sister (straight) who unwittingly share a lover. The lover doesn't know it either and he's trying to sort out his feelings for each. That part is well done. But then the brother finds and takes in an infant abandoned in the subway on a freezing cold snowy midnight, screaming it's little lungs out. Oh how anyone can do that I'll never know, for gods sake. Those are the two main plots. Both perfect but IT'S TOO SHORT DANG IT! After reading 'Facing the Tank' I could see this author taking these two themes and making a beautiful novel. But he doesn't. It's as tho this is Mr. Gales outline for the novel to come. I'd like to see him rewrite, or rather finish writing Kansas in August. You don't find too many authors with that magic touch.