Captain Saturday: A Novel - Softcover

Inman, Robert

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0316089737 ISBN 13: 9780316089739

Publisher: Back Bay Books, 2003

Synopsis

Will Baggett, TV weatherman, is probably the biggest celebrity in Raleigh, North Carolina, and he sure does like that "Yo, Will, what's the weather?" people call out, echoing his station's promotion campaign. With a nice house, a son in medical school, and a wife who's become one of the top brokers stoking the heedless real estate rush in north Raleigh, Will has the perfect life. But overnight a nasty conglomerate buys his station and throws him out, he's arrested for running a red light, he badly injures his knee, and he begins to see both that his marriage is in danger of crumbling, and that his son doesn't like him much. Then the past he thought he didn't have comes calling, in the person of his cousin Wingfoot Baggett, who collects a bewildered Will for some R&R back home, on the banks of the Cape Fear River. How Will comes to terms with his history, sorts out his legal dilemmas, reinvents himself, gets to know his son, and maybe, just maybe, reconciles with his wife, is the subject of Bob Inman's graceful, comic, and poignant novel. In a larger sense, this is also a novel about how the New South, with its booming economy and newly minted cities, is stamping out the Old South, losing in the process a sense of tradition and identity.

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About the Author

Robert Inman is also the author of the acclaimed novels Home Fires Burning, Old Dogs and Children, and Dairy Queen Days. For 25 years he was the TV anchorman on the number one station in Charlotte. He lives in Charlotte and Boone, North Carolina.

Edition details

• Publisher: Back Bay Books
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0316089737
• ISBN 13: 9780316089739
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 480