Cole Alpaugh
Autor de The Bear in a Muddy Tutu
Sobre El Autor
Créditos de la imagen: by Tylea Rain
Obras de Cole Alpaugh
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1962-08-29
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- USA
- Lugar de nacimiento
- New Jersey, USA
- Lugares de residencia
- Lake Ariel, Pennsylvania, USA
- Educación
- George Mason University
- Ocupaciones
- journalist
author - Biografía breve
- Cole Alpaugh began his newspaper career in the early 1980's at a daily paper on Maryland's Eastern Shore, where he covered everything from bake sales to KKK meetings. He moved on to a paper in Massachusetts to specialize in feature essays, where his stories on a Hispanic youth gang and the life of a Golden Gloves boxer won national awards. His most recent newspaper job was at a large daily in Central New Jersey, where he was given the freedom to pursue more "true life" essays, including award winning pieces on a traveling rodeo, and an in-depth story on an emergency room doctor. The doctor's story ended when the physician brought back to life an elderly woman who'd once been his children's babysitter. The essay was nominated by Gannett News Service for a 1991 Pulitzer Prize. Cole also did work for two Manhattan-based news agencies, covering conflicts in Haiti, Panama, Nicaragua, El Salvador, and guerrilla raids conducted out of the refugee camps along the Thai/Cambodia boarder. His work has appeared in dozens of magazines, as well as most newspapers in America.
Cole is currently a freelance photographer and writer living in Northeast Pennsylvania, where he also coaches his daughter's soccer team.
Miembros
Reseñas
Dash in the Blue Pacific por Cole Alpaugh
Esta reseña ha sido escrita por los Primeros Reseñadores de LibraryThing.had the worst time trying to become interested. i am going to reread. because it may be me not in the proper mood.
Esta reseña ha sido escrita por los Primeros Reseñadores de LibraryThing.Dash, a man betrayed by his fiance, is flying alone in a jet to the honeymoon destination in the Pacific. A tribe on a tiny Pacific island is victimized by white men who steal their 10 year old girls and kill anyone who gets in their way. They come together when Dash, sole survivor of the plane crash in the ocean, floats onto the island severely injured and is saved by the tribe. But what do they save him for. Many hate him because he is white. They fear their gods and the white man. Is this a formula for humor? Not in my book.
Dash is a man who has the self-image of a victim. The tribe has allowed itself to be victimized, because they see no other way out. Except for Tiki, a 10 year old girl, who can hardly wait to get off the island. Tiki was definitely my favorite character - she had some spunk. Dash makes friends with a god who has lost his people and is grieving for them. The god also feels he can do nothing. But one of the most enduring topics in the book is that Dash's penis is as dead as a door nail and many things hinge on this fact.
The book is fairly well written, though in the beginning I was a little confused because of the sudden switch from marauding white men to the crashing jet. Also, getting into Dash's miserable thoughts was a mite dizzying in the middle of a diving jet. All he ever had were miserable and unhappy thoughts. The description of the crashing jet was very well done, I definitely had second thoughts about getting on a jet.
If you like to read about unhappy people who think only about all the unhappy things and awful people in their lives, then this book is for you.
This is my first early review and I am very grateful for the opportunity. Received as an e-book.… (más)
Dash is a man who has the self-image of a victim. The tribe has allowed itself to be victimized, because they see no other way out. Except for Tiki, a 10 year old girl, who can hardly wait to get off the island. Tiki was definitely my favorite character - she had some spunk. Dash makes friends with a god who has lost his people and is grieving for them. The god also feels he can do nothing. But one of the most enduring topics in the book is that Dash's penis is as dead as a door nail and many things hinge on this fact.
The book is fairly well written, though in the beginning I was a little confused because of the sudden switch from marauding white men to the crashing jet. Also, getting into Dash's miserable thoughts was a mite dizzying in the middle of a diving jet. All he ever had were miserable and unhappy thoughts. The description of the crashing jet was very well done, I definitely had second thoughts about getting on a jet.
If you like to read about unhappy people who think only about all the unhappy things and awful people in their lives, then this book is for you.
This is my first early review and I am very grateful for the opportunity. Received as an e-book.… (más)
Esta reseña ha sido escrita por los Primeros Reseñadores de LibraryThing.The story is a clever idea and the writer's language and phrasing are good. But, I found it quite hard to stick to it. The book really seemed to slow down about a 1/5th in and didn't pick up (if you can call it that) until around 4/5th. You could take out a big chunk of the book and not miss anything.
I really didn't like the way the author ended the book. He waited until the last page (I kidd you not) - actually, the last sentence - to deliver the punch line.
I wanted to know what happened at the end - but was left with a vague sentence. I wanted to know what happened AFTER the solders but that was totally missing.… (más)
I really didn't like the way the author ended the book. He waited until the last page (I kidd you not) - actually, the last sentence - to deliver the punch line.
I wanted to know what happened at the end - but was left with a vague sentence. I wanted to know what happened AFTER the solders but that was totally missing.… (más)
This is a lovely little book that plays with the heart the strings and presents it's self as a faux fable, for there are no moral lessons. The novels follows the lives of a handful of unique characters that range from an island girl who saves injured animals, a drunk sea captain, a want-to-be cannibal, two bumbling pirates, a drug addicted shark god, and a faithful and determined loggerhead sea turtle. If you are wanting a fast and fun read with a truely original storyline where everyone is equally good and bad, then this is the book for you!… (más)
Estadísticas
- Obras
- 4
- Miembros
- 58
- Popularidad
- #284,346
- Valoración
- 3.6
- Reseñas
- 3
- ISBNs
- 9
