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Welcome to the WBZ Book Club.
I'm Jordan Rich. Local author David Daniel,

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who's at several important novels published,
including The Tuesday Man, The Skelly

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Man, and White Rabbit, is
showing his skill as a short story writer

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in a collection called Beach Town Stories. If you're from the South Shore of

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Boston, as i am, you'll
find a lot of it very familiar.

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The author has created a fictional seaside
town known as north Way Bridge, and

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it's a series of stories mostly focused
around growing up in the nineteen sixties and

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seventies, the looming Vietnam War,
unrequited love and lost loves, teenage angst,

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paths not taken, regrets and rewards. I love it when a talented

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short story writer allows certain characters and
situations to blend into other stories. There's

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a nice sense of continuation as the
author takes us back to a time and

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a place where car washes and fast
food, fast cars and double dates,

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where what it was all about.
All in all, very entertaining. Beachtown

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Stories by David Daniel The Book Club
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