Closer All the Time
- Publisher
- Islandport Press
- Initial publish date
- Feb 2015
- Category
- General
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9781939017499
- Publish Date
- Feb 2015
- List Price
- $24.95
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Description
The residents of small-town Baxter are going nowhere fast—but not for lack of trying. In this deftly written novel, veteran author Jim Nichols strings together the bittersweet stories of several different characters bound together by shared geography and the insular nature of small-town life. With the Atlantic coastal waters as a backdrop, Nichols artfully explores the nature of connection—hoped for, missed, lost, and found—in Closer All the Time; that very special novel that delivers quick-moving, compelling storytelling with a lasting emotional wallop.
About the author
Jim Nichols became interested in writing fiction while working as a ticket agent for a commuter airline in Rockland, Maine. Nichols has worked variously as bartender, pilot, skycap, taxi driver, fence builder, orange picker, ramp and ticket agent for a commuter airline, travel agent and dispatcher for an air taxi service. His work has appeared in Esquire, Narrative, and many other publications. He has been nominated several times for Pushcart prizes, and his novel, Hull Creek, was the runner-up for the 2012 Maine Book Award for Fiction.