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RichEisbrouch
Barnegat Bay
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Barnegat Bay is a romance, which starts on the Jersey shore in the summer of 1932. It focuses on its narrator, Doc, and his friends Mike, Larry, Al, and Spence, summer lifeguards soon headed into their senior year at CCNY -- the City College of New York. This is in the uncertain times and job market of the still early years of the Great Depression, just before Franklin Delano Roosevelt was elected. Joining the guys are Mary and Claire, local to the area but no less ambitious for their lives, and in fairly close by New York City, Doc's parents.
It may initially seem an odd book for this site, but, believe me, it's not.
The book was inspired by a series of a dozen-or-so black-and-white 8" x 10" photographs I found in a Roanoke, Virginia, antique store in late summer 1988. I thought there might be a book in them, and I thought it might have to do with betrayal and be somewhat related to one set of my grandparents. I was wrong, but it took me several years of occasional writing and repeated thinking to discover that.
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- 09/27/2019 (Updated: 04/27/2020)
- 29 Chapters
- 72,406 Words
- 39,285 Views
- 46 Comments
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Table of Contents
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Prologue
- 72 Words
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Chapter 1
- 1,863 Words
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Chapter 2
- 2,156 Words
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Chapter 3
- 1,640 Words
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Chapter 4
- 3,052 Words
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Chapter 5
- 2,072 Words
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Chapter 6
- 2,094 Words
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Chapter 7
- 2,879 Words
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Chapter 8
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Chapter 9
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Chapter 10
- 1,657 Words
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Chapter 11
- 2,732 Words
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Chapter 12
- 2,230 Words
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Chapter 13
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Chapter 14
- 3,177 Words
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Chapter 15
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Chapter 16
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Chapter 17
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Chapter 18
- 1,840 Words
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Chapter 19
- 2,852 Words
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Chapter 20
- 3,094 Words
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Chapter 21
- 2,528 Words
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Chapter 22
- 2,522 Words
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Chapter 23
- 2,606 Words
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Chapter 24
- 2,788 Words
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Chapter 25
- 3,373 Words
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Chapter 26
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Chapter 27
- 3,691 Words
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Chapter 28
- 3,426 Words
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