John Manderino

• Sep-2005
• / General Fiction
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In the last column of a job application, there’s that tricky question: reason for leaving? John Manderino has apparently had to puzzle over that one often and long. His answers are collected here in this hilarious novel-in-stories tracing the histo...

• Sep-2005
• / General Fiction
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This is the funny, poignant story of two brothers growing up in the early '60s. Manderino lightly approaches the underside of the middle American family in a tumultuous period of history....

• Sep-2005
• / General Fiction
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At forty, Hank has decided he's through with baseball -- a routine pop-up fell on his head and he got the message. Trouble is, baseball is the one thing that's given any meaning to his life. This is the painfully funny story of a man who deci...

• Oct-2010
• / General Fiction
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It’s Saturday, october 27, 1962, the darkest day of the Cuban Missile Crisis. Two children, Ralph and his little sister Lou, are searching for empty bottles in a vacant lot when they discover a rock which -- to them, at least -- looks quite a lot l...

• Jun-2016
• / Horror
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This collection of twenty-six dark but often humorous short stories features a pantheon of disturbed and disturbing characters, human and otherwise. Many of the stories are modern takes on classic monsters crafted with twisted plots and Twilight Zone...

• Oct-2016
• / Fantasy
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A holiday book that will be joyful pulled out year after year to be read. It isn't fair. Len's been asking for hockey gloves since before Thanksgiving but when he opens the only promising-looking box left under the tree, there they are: house slippe...

• Mar-2018
• / General Fiction
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American novelist John Manderino's latest work is a sparkling, hilarious novella, Bopper's Progress. Told over the course of a day in the life of Bopper, a directionless young man who has found himself on a month-long Zen Buddhist retreat, Manderino ...