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Strutting and Fretting

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Pub Date 4 Aug 2017 | Archive Date 4 Jun 2018


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Description

"At the forefront of all the serious new fiction released this year." - Midwest Book Review

Got reservations? Noncommittal Bob does - about his life. And his wife has left him. And he's broke. Party!

School's over, and Bob has landed an acting job at a major repertory theatre on the California coast. But instead of relishing his success, Bob is preoccupied with doubts about his talent, his life choices and his future.  

But hey - four months of solid work is something, right? Maybe, just maybe, Bob can turn his life around over the summer - and perhaps be invited to keep his job in the fall. But it may take a resolve and a determination that Bob does not, at this point in his life, have an abundance of: 

"Who am I to think I can do this? My marriage is failing, my tenure in the Ivory Tower of Education is over and my MFA degree is really a great credential for a career in fast food. What does it matter to the deep fryer guy that I've done the definitive Macbeth at age 24?" 

Life to Bob: Make something happen. October is bearing down fast.

"At the forefront of all the serious new fiction released this year." - Midwest Book Review

Got reservations? Noncommittal Bob does - about his life. And his wife has left him. And he's broke. Party!

...

Advance Praise

"""At the forefront of all the serious new fiction released this year."" - Midwest Book Review

""McKeon times these beats impeccably; he writes with a kinetic energy that propels Bob's darkest and funniest moments at the same pace, making for both a fully realized narrator and a compulsive read."" - Kirkus Reviews

""This superb work of fiction peels back the layers of [Bob's] carefully guarded soul for readers to explore. It is a masterful examination of a young man struggling to balance chronic low self-esteem with a performer's perpetual need for approval."" - Publishers Daily Reviews"

"""At the forefront of all the serious new fiction released this year."" - Midwest Book Review

""McKeon times these beats impeccably; he writes with a kinetic energy that propels Bob's darkest and...


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ISBN 9780692909713
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