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Synopsis
Spiraling from the tip of Cape Cod, Provincetown has long been a place of freedom, escape, diversity, and risk. A gay resort, an art colony, and a working fishing port, it is at once gritty and hedonistic, beautiful and complex.
Boston comic Mark Winslow arrives with his troupe of improv actors ready to break into the Provincetown club circuit. But the town and the region—seared by drought and caught in the culture war—are anything but peaceful this summer. Does the tall ship in the harbor bear an unusually large number of Scandinavian tourists? If not, who are the blond and ragged people insisting they are associated with it?
Then a public fight makes Mark the prime suspect in the grisly butchering of a Boston blueblood. Mark believes his choice is simple: find the killer or be charged with the crime.
Amid the clam shacks and craft shops, art galleries and nude beaches, undercurrents are pulling at the surface of normality, like riptides beneath seemingly calm water. Could the disappearance of a famous painter 80 years in the past—and the story of his masterpiece, The Fisher Boy—somehow lie at the center of the whirlpool of evil threatening to extinguish Mark’s life? The Fisher Boy is Stephen Anable’s debut novel.
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About the Author
Stephen H. Anable was born in Boston and graduated from Stanford and Harvard universities. His short fiction and essays have been published in magazines and anthologies. At various time during his life, he has been a standup comic, a journalist, an actor, a social worker, a scriptwriter, and the communications coordinator at a cemetery. He has two sons and lives in Massachusetts.
From AudioFile
Anable's murder mystery plays out in the town of Provincetown on Cape Cod, a resort known for its gay visitors. Bostonian Mark Winslow and his comedy improv troupe arrive to play the clubs for the summer. Soon after, a threat is made to the gay community and a homophobic sect invades the town to protest the exhibition of a 1916 nude portrait, THE FISHER BOY. Then a friend of Mark's is murdered right after he and Mark have a very public argument. Naturally, Mark is a suspect. Paul Michael Garcia narrates with a passion for delving into character, relating Mark's thoughts as if they were his own. Garcia creates full-bodied characters that will engage listeners from start to finish. L.B. © AudioFile 2008, Portland, Maine
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- PublisherPoisoned Pen Press
- Publication date2008
- ISBN 10 1590584813
- ISBN 13 9781590584811
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages533
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