Maintaining Texas Pride
by Dave Kuhne
This novel is a series of funny social and personal observations couched in an engaging story. Maintaining Texas Pride is a satiric how-to manual for operating a car wash. Dave Kuhne’s bemused, wry, and woeful narrator connects the car wash vignettes to create a funny, stunning, and sometimes bitter commentary on a professor’s fall from the ivory tower into manual labor in a “realer” world.
About the Author
Dave Kuhne is director of Angelina River Press. He served for years on the English faculty of Texas Christian University and as editor of descant, the literary journal from TCU Press. Kuhne is the author of African Settings in Contemporary American Novels (Greenwood Press, 1999) and principal editor of descant: Fifty Years (TCU Press, 2008). He also authored The Road the Roma (Ink Brush Press, 2015).