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Book ISBN : 0874834465Format : Author : Jim MayEdition : Pages : Publisher : August House Publishers, Inc.
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Subtitle: Southwestern Humor. Author: Curt Brummett. About the Author: CURT BRUMMETT's work has appeared in Team Roper's Times, DeBaca County News, Livestock Weekly, and Horse and Rider. He frequently performs at storytelling festivals and cowboy poetry gatherings across the Southwest. Brummett, an oil field worker, lives with his wife, Sheila, in Maljamar, New Mexico. They have three daughters and three grandchildren. Awards: . Book description: Brummett has lived a story-creating existence, a life which he now shares as a professional stroyteller. He has worked as a cowboy, a roper, a roughneck, and a firefighter.Humor abounds in Brummett's tales, whether he is pooling money with his schoolmates to up the ante on the Widow Haustetter's box supper or practice-roping while while he mother serves coffee to neighbors and accidentally fore-foots her. ˇ°As I see it,ˇ± Brummett bravely concludes, ˇ°caution is the main reason a lot of things don't get done. If it weren't for lack of caution, the education of the youth of America would fail something fierce.ˇ±Though, he adds, it sometimes results in ˇ°some rather violent forms of education.ˇ±Through the wit and the one-liners, Brummett portrays an American West in which old ways awkwardly accomodate the new, in which the drudgery of the day is punctuated with practical jokes and seasoned with humor, and in which the repressible frontier spirit continues to prevail. . (Aug)
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