Sex, Drugs and Blueberries
by Crash Barry
Price: $4.99 USD. 84580 words.
Published on January 6, 2012. Fiction.
Failed Portland rocker Ben Franklin moves Down East with his poet wife to start a new life. Desperate for cash, Ben signs on for the Maine blueberry harvest where he's lured into a seamy world of sex and drugs that could lead to his downfall. Alternating between temptation and ecstasy, desperation and guilt, Ben discovers how quickly things can go wrong.
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Crash Barry
Biography
Crash Barry's most recent book is the gritty memoir Tough Island. Crash is also the author of the rollicking novel Sex, Drugs and Blueberries set in Washington County amid the Oxycontin-abuse epidemic. His column One Maniac’s Meat appears monthly in The Bollard, a Portland newsmagazine. He spent a decade as a print and radio reporter in Portland until receiving a writing fellowship from the Maine Arts Commission, which convinced him to pursue book-writing. He’s worked as a sternman, sailor, bartender, demolitionist, janitor, alpaca herdsman, cow milker and blueberry raker. He lives in the hills of western Maine.
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Tough Island - True Stories from Matinicus, Maine
by Crash Barry
Price: $4.99 USD. 30280 words. Published on December 14, 2011. Nonfiction.
In 1991, Crash Barry moved to Maine's most remote inhabited island to work as a sternman aboard a lobster boat. On Matinicus, twenty miles out to sea, population fifty, the ferry visited nine times a year. Tough Island is a gritty memoir and guided tour of a unique society inhabited by resourceful individuals and scoundrels. Stories of danger and drugs, sex and violence, death and sorrow.
Price: $4.99 USD. 30280 words. Published on December 14, 2011. Nonfiction.
In 1991, Crash Barry moved to Maine's most remote inhabited island to work as a sternman aboard a lobster boat. On Matinicus, twenty miles out to sea, population fifty, the ferry visited nine times a year. Tough Island is a gritty memoir and guided tour of a unique society inhabited by resourceful individuals and scoundrels. Stories of danger and drugs, sex and violence, death and sorrow.