The Grifter, The Poet, And The Runaway Train: Stories From A Yankee Writer's Notebook
by Geoffrey Douglas
2021-06-05 23:09:50
The Grifter, The Poet, And The Runaway Train: Stories From A Yankee Writer's Notebook
by Geoffrey Douglas
2021-06-05 23:09:50
For over 20 years, Geoffrey Douglas has written feature-length pieces for Yankee magazine that chronicle extraordinary stories that have taken place in New England. Some have been about public events, widely reported-âa Maine town turning agains...
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For over 20 years, Geoffrey Douglas has written feature-length pieces for Yankee magazine that chronicle extraordinary stories that have taken place in New England. Some have been about public events, widely reported-âa Maine town turning against itself under the weight of an influx of Somalis, a fatal fire in Worcester MA, a Vermont reporter''s defense of marriage equality. Others, have been more private, the stories of men and women surviving, facing choices, living life-âa small-time jockey scratching out an existence at county-fair racetracks; the long, sad fall of a Maine lottery winner, a poet''s love affair with his town. The best of these, taken together, make for a rich and updated collection of New England portraits: mostly ordinary lives, upended by choice or chance, turned suddenly, unexpectedly remarkable.
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