Showdown At The Hoedown

by Steve Minkin

Steve Minkin's first novel was published in 1979 and won praise from Library Journal ("tough, romantic, and dramatically clever, by a writer worth watching"), Publisher's Weekly ("a talented writer"), and other reviewers. Shortly after that, he was introduced to square dancing, which so captivated him that he threw himself into the dance and learned to call square dances. He has spent the last thirty years as a full-time, professional square dance caller. Now Minkin brings his experience of having called more than 10,000 square dances to his new novel. Set in California, 1870, Showdown At The Hoedown tells the story of a large square dance, celebrating the arrival of a wagon train from back East. The book is a romance, a mystery, a lively collection of stories and humor about many kinds of music and dance, and an imaginative fiction. But, at its heart it is a song of praise for the dance that spun "connective fibers that stitched the individuals into the warp and woof of society . . . fleshed-out demonstrations that an individual belonged there, that the world of people around them included them, held their hands, danced with them."

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0615709826
• ISBN13: 9780615709826
• Release Date: October 2012
• Publisher: Steve Minkin
• Length: 326 Pages
• Weight: 1.08 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 0.7" x 5.5"