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State Fair is a 1932 novel by Phil Stong about an Iowa farm family's visit to the Iowa State Fair, where the family's two teenage children each fall in love, but ultimately break up with their respective new loves and return to their familiar life back on the farm. Thomas Leslie, the author of Iowa State Fair: Country Comes to Town, wrote that the novel State Fair is "a surprisingly dark coming-of-age story that took as its major plot device the effects of the 'worldly temptations' of the Iowa State Fair on a local farming family", capturing tensions between urban Des Moines and rural Iowa.
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- 1 2 "Vera Miles Will Star In 'State Fair'". The Schenectady Gazette . Schenectady, New York. May 15, 1976. p. TV Section 24. Retrieved 14 September 2015.
- 1 2 3 4 "'State Fair' Comes to TV as Musical Drama" . High Point Enterprise . High Point, North Carolina. 8 May 1976. p. TV Spotlight 1. Retrieved 6 November 2015– via Newspapers.com.
- 1 2 Fulkerson, Perry (14 May 1976). "'State Fair' Pilot Has Potential". Evening Independent . St. Petersburg, Florida. p. 3-B. Retrieved 14 September 2015.
- ↑ "Reviews and ratings for State Fair". Internet Movie Database. Retrieved 14 September 2015.