Restoring the Burnt Child: A PrimerNegotiating the no man's land between ages nine and thirteen, this memoir of a small town boy's life in 1940s Kansas continues the story William Kloefkorn began in his much loved volume This Death by Drowning. With characteristic humor and in prose as lyrical as his best poetry, Kloefkorn describes the unsentimental education he received at the hands of the denizens of Urie's Barber Shop and the Rexall Drugstore and at the knees of the true characters