{"product_id":"9780700624720","title":"Headlights on the Prairie: Essays on Home","description":"\u003cp\u003eAt 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the tradition of memoirs such as Tobias Wolff’s \u003ci\u003eThis Boy’s Life\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University Press of Kansas","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47166628790512,"sku":"9780700624720","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780700624720_p0.jpg?v=1772497886","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780700624720","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}