The Lone Surfer of Montana, Kansas: Stories

by Davy Rothbart

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0743263057
• ISBN13: 9780743263054
• Release Date: August 2005
• Publisher: Touchstone Books
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.2" x 7.9"

Customer Reviews

Fantastic little book of short stories.

LOVED this book! I got to the end and was so so sad it was over.

Riveting!

Davy's book is a wonderful read. When I picked it up, I was pleased that it was a thin book. By the time I finished reading the last story, I wished it would go on and on. My favorite story in the collection was the "Lone Surfer...".

If Judy Blume likes it...

Judy Blume likes this book. She says so on the back. I am talking about the author of Superfudge, ya'll! Author of Tales of a Fourth-Grade Nothing! Jesus himself may as well have recommended Davy's book. What do I think? I read this book in one day; and I was sad when I had no more stories left. Davy's people are my kind of people. You will only be mad at yourself if you do not read this book.

The Lone Surfer

Davy Rothbart's short stories evoke the innocence and the complexity of human relationships. These sometimes wacky and sometimes not so wacky characters, encountering the everyday trials and tribulations of life, could be your best friend, your brother, or even yourself at some moment, current, past, present. Perhaps that's what Davy does best -- caputure the fleeting beauty of particular moments in time.

Davy makes you laugh, and leaves you thinking

The Lone Surfer of Montana, Kansas is a hugely enjoyable collection of stories. I read it in under a day, because I couldn't stop wondering about the next story, and the next story. This book reflects some of those amazing experiences where life comes together through coicidence or design. Well written, touching, honest, and amazing, these experiences will have you invested in the journey, turning page after page. When I finished reading, I immediately wanted to read more, and to take a road trip.

This book will grab you by the shoulders...

...and not let go. I devoured it in 2 days and then went back and read it again. Davy Rothbart has a knack for distilling the humanity in any given situation with an uncanny sensitivity. Many of the stories are out-loud funny and almost all of them will break your heart (in a good way). I can't recommend it enough.