Officer Friendly and Other Stories

Officer Friendly and Other Stories

by Lewis Robinson
Officer Friendly and Other Stories

Officer Friendly and Other Stories

by Lewis Robinson

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Overview

The stories in this acclaimed debut all take place in the state of Maine—which quickly comes to stand for the state we're all in when we face the moments that change our lives forever. Two roughneck hockey players are kicked off the team and forced to join the drama club. A young bartender at a party of coastal aristocrats has to deal with the surreal request to put a rich old coot out of his misery. Can a father defend his family if the diver helping to free the tangled propeller of their boat turns out to be a real threat?

With humor, a piercing eye, and a sense that danger often lies just around the corner, Robinson gives us a variety of vivid characters, wealthy and poor, delinquent and romantic, while illuminating the mythic, universal implications of so-called ordinary life. These stories are at once classic and modern; taken together, they bring the good news that an important, compassionate new voice in American fiction has arrived.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780062028846
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 12/15/2023
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 252
File size: 2 MB

About the Author

Lewis Robinson was born in Natick, Massachusetts, and grew up in Maine. He attended Middlebury College and the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where he was a teaching-writing fellow and winner of the Glenn Schaeffer Award. He has written for Sports Illustrated and the Boston Globe, and has had day jobs ranging from fire warden to crab slaughterer. He lives in Portland, Maine.

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