State Fair Paperback - 1996
by Phil Stong; Foreword by Robert A. McCown
From the rear cover
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 readers in 1932, but most were captivated by the Frakes' good-natured integrity and applauded their spirit. Readers today will find the same joy, liveliness, and insight in this new edition of State Fair.
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- Title State Fair
- Author Phil Stong; Foreword by Robert A. McCown
- Binding Paperback
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 280
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of Iowa Press, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.
- Date 1996
- ISBN 9780877455691 / 0877455694
- Weight 0.77 lbs (0.35 kg)
- Dimensions 8.15 x 5.56 x 0.74 in (20.70 x 14.12 x 1.88 cm)
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 96060644
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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Citations
- Library Journal, 11/15/1996, Page 93
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