by Hugh Cook

Welcome to a year in the life of Alfalfa, a small town in middle-America, a farm community where you will meet...

1) Hilbert TeBrake, who is convinced this is the year he will finally beat Earlie Prior in the giant cauliflower championship at the Alfalfa Fair...
2) 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...
3) Robert Meyer the town photographer, a bachelor and the best friend a bride ever had...
4) 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.


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. Cracked Wheat and Other Stories went into a second printing; his novel The Homecoming Man appeared in Dutch translation under the title Een Man Komt Thuis (Boekencentrum/Mosaiek, 2007) and 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.

Author: Hugh Cook
Category: Fiction
ISBN: 0889628858
Pages: 256