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Lobster Rolls

New York: HarperCollins, 2003 As the title suggests, this book, just released in hardcover, combines recipes from the coast of Maine with stories of Rebecca Charles’s family’s visits there. The ethnic thread of the narrative is an intriguing one. Rather than a WASP New England blueblood perspective or the Maine native’s experience, this is the

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Whore’s Child and Other Stories

Whore’s Child and Other Stories By Richard Russo Vintage Books, 2003 Reviewed by Tina Cohen This first collection of short stories by novelist Richard Russo (2002 Pulitzer Prize winner for Empire Falls), appeared last year and will be released in paperback this July. Russo currently lives in Camden. The stories focus on folks sharing common

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Troubled paradise

Here’s a riddle. You live on a beautiful island and enjoy a rural setting, relatively little tourism, and low-impact ways to make a living. The most traditional jobs are related to the water (fishing) or the fields (raising livestock). Some get by providing services – food, transportation, entertainment – and some run guesthouses about nine

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Officer Friendly and Other Stories

Coming of age in coastal Maine New York, 2003: HarperCollins228 pages; hardbound; $23.95 Officer Friendly is a collection of short stories in the first published book of author Lewis Robinson. Robinson, who grew up in Maine, lives in Portland. He has created a locale on the coast of Maine vaguely four hours above Portland –

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