Welcome to a year in the life of Alfalfa, a small town in middle- America, a farm community where you will meet.... Hilbert TeBrake, who is convinced this is the year he will finally beat Earlie Prior in the giant cauliflower championship at the Alfalfa Fair.... VanderLeek, Lubbers and Klop, three frugal farmers who together buy a boar named Wild Oats, then devise an ingenious plan to breed their own sows - but only on Sundays.... Robert Meyer the town photographer, a bachelor and the best friend a bride ever had.... Dorothy DeHeer, a pastor's wife who dreams of a rendezvous in the Cayman Islands with a secret lover...Stories and characters which will remind the reader of Garrison Keilor.Home In Alfalfa: Stories has now gone into a second printing and has been adapted for the stage. The premiere of this stage work was held at Redeemer University College in 2007.
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Hugh Cook holds an M.A. from Simon Fraser University and an M.F.A. from the Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa. He is a retired Professor of English and lives in Hamilton, Ontario. His three works of fiction, all published by Mosaic Press, received wide critical acclaim.
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Storyteller Hugh Cook is at home writing stories with humor, empathy and a sense of extraordinary grace in the ordinary. He breathes life into small-town Dutch Reformed Canadian characters so well that you think you might like to put down the book and travel to the town of Alfalfa, but putting down the book is not that easy. It sticks to your fingers like marshmallows on a hot night around the campfire. Besides that, Alfalfa is not a town you'd find on a roadmap, but you will recognize the coffeehouse (center of town, center of information) and the town churches (centers of controversy and accidental holy moments). Throughout the book you may find yourself affirming one wife's viewpoint and then having to change your mind when you hear her husband's side of the story. You might shake your head ruefully or bust a gut laughing or sometimes--as I did throughout one chapter late in the book--you will cry and keep wiping away tears because you want to keep reading. Just because it's true. It doesn't cheat; it stays honest. How novel.
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Cook at Home with Stories
Sep 22 1999
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Storyteller Hugh Cook is at home writing stories with humor, empathy and a sense of extraordinary grace in the ordinary. He breathes life into small-town Dutch Reformed Canadian characters so well that you think you might like to put down the book and travel to the town of Alfalfa, but putting down the book is not that easy. It sticks to your fingers like marshmallows on a hot night around the campfire. Besides that, Alfalfa is not a town you'd find on a roadmap, but you will recognize the coffeehouse (center of town, center of information) and the town churches (centers of controversy and accidental holy moments). Throughout the book you may find yourself affirming one wife's viewpoint and then having to change your mind when you hear her husband's side of the story. You might shake your head ruefully or bust a gut laughing or sometimes--as I did throughout one chapter late in the book--you will cry and keep wiping away tears because you want to keep reading. Just because it's true. It doesn't cheat; it stays honest. How novel.
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A little bit of home
Sep 10 2005
By K. Austin
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I attended the University in which Hugh Cook was a professor, and was his student in English. This is a wonderful book - very enjoyable to read! It feels a bit like Little House on the Prarie with wonderful characters and settings! I look forward to more of his books!!
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