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Hitchhiker: Stories from the Kentucky Homefront

Hitchhiker: Stories from the Kentucky Homefront


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Growing up next door to his Granny's country store in McCracken County, Kentucky, a very young Bob Thompson had unlimited access to the cold-drink box and shelves of candy. Only later did he realize that the greatest benefit of this arrangement was that his playmates and best friends were all adults who frequented the grocery. As he passed his childhood years on the store's front porch, Thompson internalized the tales and folk traditions conveyed by his grandmother and her customers. These moments allowed him to discover his own passion for storytelling. In Hitchhiker: Stories from the Kentucky Homefront, Thompson offers readers homegrown tales that interweave ghosts of the past with real and imagined worlds. The stories progress from his Tom Sawyer--esque childhood in Western Kentucky through his various incarnations as everything from an incense-burning flower-child hitchhiker to an unrepentant adventurer following the footsteps of Hemingway and the Lost Generation across Europe. This collection brings together coming-of-age tales, family stories of bygone eras, and even true accounts of unsolved murders and mysteries. Hitchhiker is Huckleberry Finn meets The Twilight Zone, with just a taste of The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test. It is a book that will make you wish you'd paid closer attention to your grandparents' and parents' stories and photo albums, that you'd been less cautious and traveled more, that you'd followed your heart and made time to search for your guides and kindred spirits.

About the Author :
Bob Thompson is a writer, storyteller, engineer, handyman, tree hugger, and explorer of other dimensions. He is chairman and program director for E.A.R.S., which produces the Corn Island Storytelling Festival and the Kentucky Homefront Radio show.

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Hitchhiker: Stories from the Kentucky Homefront is a set of heartfelt recollections of growing up, coming of age, and other adventures. It is a memoir of personal experiences and relationships with family and friends that sometimes play out in unexpected and bizarre ways. The author does not shy away from stories that directly connect life and death; loved ones gone on to the other side still affect us in a symmetry of circumstances that stretches beyond coincidence."" - Thomas Freese, author and storyteller


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780813174280
  • Publisher: The University Press of Kentucky
  • Publisher Imprint: The University Press of Kentucky
  • Height: 216 mm
  • No of Pages: 166
  • Sub Title: Stories from the Kentucky Homefront
  • ISBN-10: 0813174287
  • Publisher Date: 18 Oct 2017
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Width: 140 mm


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