The Man Who Kept Cigars In His Cap

by Jim Heynen, Tom Pohrt (Illustrator)

Book by Heynen, Jim

61 pages, Paperback

First published June 1, 1978

Reviews

[Erick Mertz · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book is a one-of-a-kind piece of what I can only refer to as outsider folklore. The stories are rural, agrarian and largely, by my guess, western-American. They deal with farm life, usually boys and they're told in a whimsical, oral storytelling style. Many are harsh. They deal with the morbid results of breeding livestock, dead animals, life and death of neighbors, the rough stuff that used to define the every day experience in rural America. Reminds you of how much American life and values have changed when you look at just how different things were for "boys and girls" in the 1930's.