PO'ed (Paperback)

Bobby Stanton

ISBN 10: 1539708195 / ISBN 13: 9781539708193

Published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform, 2016

About this Item

Paperback. Shhhh! R.J. Stanton, the writer of the novel, POed: Post Office, A View From Below is talking with the novel's main character, Bo Morgan. Let's listen in: Bo: Nobody's going to read this book.RJ: You have to have faith, Bo. There's room for our stuff out there.Bo: Yeah, well, you work at the post office for a while and see where your faith ends up. All they want is books by Amy Tan.or J.K. Rowling. People are sick of hearing white guys whine about their lives.RJ: Not true. They'll want to read about how you tried to do something. How you became a supervisor so you could try to beat an environment that is unlike any other. How you thought you could make a difference. You were the R.P. McMurphy of the post office.Bo: No I wasn't. I didn't win. McMurphy won. He changed people's lives. I lost. RJ: You know and I know those crazy bastards lives went right back to the way they were a week after McMurphy got his lobotomy. Your story is more realistic. They only life you saved was your own-a modern day hero.You chose yourself over the machine. You won. Your brains weren't whipped into mush. You would have died a metaphorical death if you stayed.Bo: Ahh. I get it. That's the point of your book.RJ: Yes-the literary importance.Bo: Hmmm. I wouldn't get to high on yourself there, RJ; everybody is going to think it's just a satire. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: PO'ed (Paperback)
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication Date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1539708195
• ISBN 13: 9781539708193
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

Shhhh! R.J. Stanton, the writer of the novel, POed: Post Office, A View From Below is talking with the novel’s main character, Bo Morgan. Let’s listen in:

Bo: Nobody’s going to read this book.
RJ: You have to have faith, Bo. There’s room for our stuff out there.
Bo: Yeah, well, you work at the post office for a while and see where your faith ends up. All they want is books by Amy Tan…or J.K. Rowling. People are sick of hearing white guys whine about their lives.
RJ: Not true. They’ll want to read about how you tried to do something. How you became a supervisor so you could try to beat an environment that is unlike any other. How you thought you could make a difference. You were the R.P. McMurphy of the post office.
Bo: No I wasn’t. I didn’t win. McMurphy won. He changed people’s lives. I lost.  
RJ: You know and I know those crazy bastards lives went right back to the way they were a week after McMurphy got his lobotomy. Your story is more realistic. They only life you saved was your own—a modern day hero….You chose yourself over the machine. You won. Your brains weren’t whipped into mush. You would have died a metaphorical death if you stayed.
Bo: Ahh. I get it. That’s the point of your book.
RJ: Yes—the literary importance.
Bo: Hmmm. I wouldn’t get to high on yourself there, RJ; everybody is going to think it’s just a satire. 

About the Author

R.J. Stanton worked for the postal service from 1997 until 2004. He started out as a carrier and finished as a Labor Relations Specialist. He holds a cum laude degree in English from the University of Massachusetts and a masters in Human Resource Development from American International College. He lives in Holyoke, Massachusetts with his girlfriend, Andrea Chernovetz, and his two boys, Charlie and Sammy. This is his second novel. His first, The Outlier, is a novel of detective fiction. It was published in 2001. It reads like greased lightning.