Fresh Jersey: Stories from an Altered State

By Mike Kelly

For over a decade, ordinary people, doing ordinary things, have given Mike Kelly the opportunity to inform and entertain readers of the New Jersey-based newspaper The Record. To Kelly, the story is in... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0940159597
• ISBN13: 9780940159594
• Release Date: August 2000
• Publisher: Camino Books
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 2.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Fresh Jersey Stories fron an Altered State

He is a great writer. I recognized people I know. Anyone living in New Jersey will love it.

A Jersey Gem

Mike Kelly is the Jimmy Breslin of New Jersey, a writer with a deft touch who can portray the human side of issues, politics, and other areas where people become statistics or political rallying points. This is a wonderful collection of pieces displaying Kelly's empathetic touch. New Jersey receives a ton of bad press, but Kelly manages to portray the diversity, humor and underlying heart and toughness of the state in a way which blows the stereotypes out of the water. Highly recommended.

Took me Home

I left Jersey twenty-five years ago, but the characters and places in Fresh Jersey brought it all warmly to life for me. There's a world view from the ground in NJ that becomes more clear after living on the other coast, and it springs to life in these pages. My personal favorite column was about the shad fisherman in the Hudson River. This is great stuff to give someone in the other 49 states who hails from NJ. Mine's going to another Jersey ex-pat.