The Chicken That Won a Dogfight: The Humor and Hope of an Arkansas Boyhood

Book Description
The humor and the hope of an Arkansas boyhood, this book contains twenty, mostly-humorous stories of growing up in the depression-day deep south when FDR was "the savior" and battery powered radio was the only contact with the outside world. The one serious piece is the celebrated, award-winning story, The Martyrdom of Andy which has since been published in Chicken Soup for the Soul.

From the Publisher
This book falls somewhere between the work of Garrison Keillor and Robert Fulghum. Burton's stories about childhood during the depression are anything but depressing. Once you read this book you will want to share it with a loved one or a fri.

From the Author
One of the things that distinguishes the human species from the other animals is our ability to laugh; to laugh at ourselves and even those we hold most dear, especially those we hold most dear! That's largely what this book is about.

From the Inside Flap
"Ben Burton artfully proves Good Country Humor works well on both sides of the Mason-Dixon line." George Mitchell, Northeastern Loggers Association, Bangor, ME "Clean Southern humor with more than a grain of truth." Cavett Robert, Phoenix, AZ

From the Back Cover
Sure, his family was poor but as Ben Burton remembers the days of his youth, imagination, play and family terness filled his world. "Storytelling World Awards; 1996" to The Martyrdom of Andy


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