The Grifter, the Poet, and the Runaway Train: Stories from a Yankee Writer's Notebook

By Geoffrey Douglas

Book Overview

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--a 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--a 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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1493041487
• ISBN13: 9781493041480
• Release Date: May 2019
• Publisher: Globe Pequot Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 9.3"