The Last Cattle Drive Robert Day 224 pages, 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 Paper ISBN 978-0-7006-0243-8, $9.95 This hilarious novel, the story of a wild romp across modern-day Kansas, is now available in a trade paperback edition. "Fetching, with some tall, raunchy saddletalk and a style as clear as sweet buttered corn."--Kirkus Review "Spangler Star Tukle is a Kansas cattleman with 6,000 acres and a low boiling point. (Tukle is so choleric that he empties a shotgun into a power mower that has offended him.) When the rancher decides to drive his 250 head of cattle to the Kansas City stockyards to save shipping costs, you can expect Murphy's Law to become 100 percent operative. . . . Atmospheric."--New York Times Book Review "Tightly written . . . and powerfully evocative. The smells, sights, and sounds of Kansas are described so well at times that one begins to cough as the dust crawls up through the floorboards of the battered pickup."--Baltimore Sun "The sense of place, the Kansas world of enormous horizons, pickup trucks, and Coors beer, is well conveyed and . . . highly seductive."--Times Literary Supplement "Call it a mid-western. Call it cowboys and urbanites. Call it well-written entertainment."--American Library Association Booklist "Very real, earthy, and vital. . . . Exceedingly well told and funny."--Kansas City Star "Hilarious."--London Daily Telegraph "Bob Day's novel is like the man himself--ebullient, precise Rabelaisian, witty. It's written in remarkably fine North American English. It wears its cowboy boots, as does the author himself, very comfortably and with a highly polished panache."--Anthony Burgess "Immensely funny."--Washington Star ROBERT DAY, professor of English and director of the O'Neill Literary House at Washington College in Chestertown, Maryland, has received MacDowell, Yaddo, and NEH fellowships in fiction writing and has been a visiting writer at the Iowa Writers Workshop and an artist-in-residence at the University of Kansas. In addition to The Last Cattle Drive, he is the author of two novellas, In My Stead and Four-Wheel Drive Quartet.   Home | About the Press | Recent Awards | Contact Us | Order New Books: | By Author | By Subject | By Title | By Series Books in Print: | By Author | By Subject | By Title | By Series ©2007 University Press of Kansas 2502 Westbrooke Circle, Lawrence, KS 66045-4444 Phone (785) 864-4155; Fax (785) 864-4586