From Memorial Day until the student workers and tourists leave in the fall, the island community of Put-In-Bay, Ohio, thrives on alcohol, drugs, sexual experimentation, and any other means of forgetting responsibilities. To Brad Shepherd--recently forced out of his job as a junior high math teacher after the overdose death of a student--it's exactly the kind of place he's looking for to forget and begin again. Sometimes we must become the opposite to understand who we truly are.
- Rights Contact
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Doug Cooper
<doug@bycooper.com>
- Award(s)
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2014 International Book Award for Literary Fiction, 2014 USA Best Book Award for Literary Fiction, and 2015 Bronze IPPY
- Book Website
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http://bycooper.com
- Contributor(s)
- Doug Cooper
- Publisher
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Greenleaf Book Group Press
- ISBN-13
- 978-1-62634-004-6
- Publication Date
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Aug 13, 2013
- Pages
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253
- Price
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$18.95
- Tags
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#literary
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#fiction
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Our Review
(4 out of 5 stars)
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After one of his students dies, a teacher loses himself in sex, drugs, and rock and roll in this insightful coming-of-age story. Doug Cooper’s debut novel gets off to a stunning and unsettling start before becoming a more familiar, though still insightful, coming-of-age story. Although the...
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