It is the second novel from a writer of matchless originality. Philip Kimball (1941-2014) grew up working on his family’s farm in Oklahoma before graduating from the University of Kansas in 1963. Graduate work followed, first as a Woodrow Wilson Fellow and later as a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Heidelberg. A few years of university teaching proved unsatisfying, and he left the academic world to pursue a variety of bluecollar jobs while writing his first novel.
It is the second novel from a writer of matchless originality. Philip Kimball (1941-2014) grew up working on his family’s farm in Oklahoma before graduating from the University of Kansas in 1963. Graduate work followed, first as a Woodrow Wilson Fellow and later as a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Heidelberg. A few years of university teaching proved unsatisfying, and he left the academic world to pursue a variety of bluecollar jobs while writing his first novel.
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