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MARK COGGINS / Prom Night and Other Man Made Disasters

Wednesday, June 6 2012 at 7:30 PM

 

 

 

David Sedaris meets Bill Bryson meets Chelsea Handler

 

 

 

If Mark Coggins’s life were a supermarket, the stories from Prom Night and Other Man-made Disasters would be the aisle markers. Meander through the nostalgic, riotous, and sometimes cringe-inducing wares Coggins offers up in his version of Whole Fool. Whether he’s staking out the house of his two-timing, belly-dancing girlfriend, deep sea diving with equipment fashioned from tire chains, a trash can and a garden hose, or donning an oversize waterfowl outfit to win the heart of the one who got away, Coggins writes with honesty, self-effacing humor and warmth.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mark Coggins’s work has been nominated for the Shamus and the Barry crime fiction awards and selected for best of the year lists compiled by the San Francisco Chronicle and the Detroit Free Press, among others. His novels Runoff and The Big Wake-Up won the Next Generation Indie Book Award and the Independent Publisher Book Award (IPPY) respectively, both in the crime fiction category. He lives in San Francisco with his wife Linda.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

$14.99
ISBN-13: 9781467985710
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Createspace, 4/2012

Location: 
Street:
1644 Haight St.
City:
San Francisco
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Province:
California
Postal Code:
94117-2816
Country:
United States

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