Uncommon Hours: 'A Great Fullness' nominated for 2017 Thorpe Menn Literary Excellence Award

Thursday, July 6, 2017

'A Great Fullness' nominated for 2017 Thorpe Menn Literary Excellence Award

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A Great Fullness has been nominated for the 2017 Thorpe Menn Literary Excellence Award, sponsored by the Kansas City Chapter of the American Association of University Women.

Established in 1979 by AAUW-KC, the award honors Thorpe Menn (1912-1979), long-time book editor of the Kansas City Star, who supported all aspects of Kansas City’s cultural life, especially authors and artists.

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What they're saying about Where the Wind Blew

"Bob Sommer hears the music and voices of the past and gives you what America has become today.” —Mason Williams (of “Classical Gas” fame)

"... a masterful job of evoking memories of the halcyon days of political activism."
--The Baby Boomer Brief

"This blistering, fast-paced tale of a man whose radical past catches up with him ... cross-examines our culture, then and now." --Chronogram

“I had a hard time putting WHERE THE WIND BLEW down.” —Robert Pardun, author of Prairie Radical: A Journey through the Sixties

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