{"product_id":"headlights-on-the-prairie-essays-on-home-9780700624713","title":"Headlights on the Prairie: Essays on Home","description":"At the long-term care facility where Robert Rebein's father lands after a horrific car crash, a shadow box hangs next to each room, its contents suggesting something of the occupant's life. In \u003ci\u003eHeadlights on the Prairie\u003c\/i\u003e, Rebein has created a literary shadow box of sorts, a book in which moments of singular grace and grit encapsulate a life and a world. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn the tradition of memoirs such as Tobias Wolff's This Boy's Life and Ivan Doig's \u003ci\u003eThis House of Sky\u003c\/i\u003e, these essays bring a storyteller's gifts to life's dramas, large and small. Following his award-winning turn on his hometown of Dodge City, Rebein takes us back to the high plains world where his family has farmed and ranched since the 1920s. It is a world populated by feedlot cowboys, stock-car drivers, and farm kids dreaming of basketball glory. Here too we find the darker tales of damaged young men returning from war, long-haul truckers addicted to crystal meth, and the sadly heroic residents of a small-town nursing home grandiloquently named Manor of the Plains. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhether contemplating a fiery crash at a race track, coming to terms with an aging parent, or navigating the last days of a beloved family dog, Rebein offers a subtle, unsparing, often moving look at the moments that go into making a writer and a man. Seen in sharp detail, and recalled from a distance, his is a story of how a man can leave his home on the prairie--and yet never really get out of Dodge.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University Press of Kansas\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/21\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780700624713\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 184\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.55lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 5.50w x 0.50d","brand":"Robert Rebein","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44833756479669,"sku":"9780700624713","price":21.24,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_c5fce059-6da2-44de-b968-3a219ce839c5.jpg?v=1732029997","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/headlights-on-the-prairie-essays-on-home-9780700624713","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}