All The Bay's Clams And All The Bay's Men - Bauer, John
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His best and worst days were those bay days, the ones that shaped his future. From the moment he'd graduated high school, Peter Halstead dreamt of a life full of political grandeur and solid achievements. Mocked at every turn, he refuses to make his old man's mistakes, nor will he dig clams forever. A "most successful" career waits for him on the horizon. Moments in Peter's young life soon steer him away from Clayport, his first love, and his buddies. He never returns to his halcyon bay days. A forty-year high school reunion brings him back to encounter former classmates. He wants nothing more…mehr

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His best and worst days were those bay days, the ones that shaped his future. From the moment he'd graduated high school, Peter Halstead dreamt of a life full of political grandeur and solid achievements. Mocked at every turn, he refuses to make his old man's mistakes, nor will he dig clams forever. A "most successful" career waits for him on the horizon. Moments in Peter's young life soon steer him away from Clayport, his first love, and his buddies. He never returns to his halcyon bay days. A forty-year high school reunion brings him back to encounter former classmates. He wants nothing more than to showcase himself. Instead, he compares his life to theirs and discovers he may have squandered his existence. A crumpled napkin channels him toward an uncharted destination. Illogical choices cause his unconventional actions, altering his remaining days on earth. Will his future have any purpose? Will yours?
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John Bauer read, lived, worked, loved, won, and lost, well before he ever wrestled with words. In 2007, fired as county manager for no good reason from a place he'd previously managed for six productive years, he mistitled, and under-achieved with a textbook/cathartic memoir-boats, knots, other things. Undaunted, John sold health insurance and stocks and bonds, and then served five (5) twelve (12)-month tours in Iraq and Afghanistan as a Senior Governance Advisor for the US Department of State. Since 2013, Scribes Valley, Stone Canoe Literary Journal, AnotheRealm, the Magazine of Speculative Fiction, Andrews UK Limited (House of Erotica), WildSound Novel Writing Festival, and Stringybark Stories have published his scribblings. Thrice, he's successfully participated in Nanowrimo. In November 2013, he drafted All the Bay's Clams and All the Bay's Men. Seven years and multiple re-writes later, this novel is soon-to-be published. His genres are adult contemporary, dark comedy, farcical, horror, erotic, and non-fiction. A believer in pre-destination and Divine Providence, John opines the endings to each of his manuscripts are not entirely his own. Born in Brooklyn, and raised on Long Island, New York, where he dug clams for eight summer seasons, John was schooled at Notre Dame and Syracuse, with detours to Mexico City, Mexico, Raleigh, NC, and Little Rock, Arkansas. Since 1979, he has worked as a public servant in southeastern North Carolina. There, he and his wife raised three children and currently have five grandchildren. Oldmanwrite-website and brand-reflects by any quantitative measure, John is old. Qualitatively? That part of his BIO has yet to be written.