Family Fun: Stories

by David Ollier Weber

Overview

A boy bonds with his grandmother's tiny poodle. A divorced father bonds with his surly teenage son on a basketball court. A middle-aged professor and his wife bond over evening cocktails. A young couple, their colicky two-year-old and a friend bond during a Saturday sail on San Francisco Bay. Or not.Family life is complicated. Sometimes it's even dangerous.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780971648135
Publisher:	Kila Springs Press
Publication date:	04/01/2006
Edition description:	KILA SPRINGS PRESS
Pages:	248
Product dimensions:	5.40(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

David Ollier Weber has been a Woodrow Wilson Fellow in English literature at Columbia University; an apprentice seaman aboard the Norwegian tramp steamer MS Tancred (he had the wheel watch between Scylla and Charybdis); a copyboy for the New York Times; operations officer and navigator aboard the U.S. Seventh Fleet destroyer USS HIGBEE (DD-806); a general assignment reporter for the Daily Review in Hayward, California; public relations representative for the Port of Oakland; editor of the employee magazine of Pacific Gas & Electric Company; and a free-lance journalist specializing in healthcare, science and medicine. He has owned classic wooden sailboats, Siberian huskies and chickens, felled redwood trees and built a house from the lumber, roasted his own coffee and remarried his ex-wife. For many years he suffered from a serious basketball addiction. A father of four and grandfather of two, he divides his time between the Sierra foothills and the Mendocino coast of California.

Table of Contents

"Boy With Dog,"
"Hoops,"
"What's Eating at You?"
"California Standard."

What People are Saying About This

Daniel Menaker

"Disturbing and frightening.... A kind of raw, physical prose that I found quite impressive."
—The New Yorker