Stockboy - Downie, Doug
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A collection of short stories that is novelistic in that there is a timeline, a main character, interconnections among stories. It follows Jack Dugan through a series of mostly demeaning jobs over a 25 year period. The stories are mostly quite short, and eschew the climax and resolution of standard story-telling - they play out the way real life plays out.

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A collection of short stories that is novelistic in that there is a timeline, a main character, interconnections among stories. It follows Jack Dugan through a series of mostly demeaning jobs over a 25 year period. The stories are mostly quite short, and eschew the climax and resolution of standard story-telling - they play out the way real life plays out.
Autorenporträt
Doug Downie completed a PhD in Entomology at UC, Davis in 1999. He conducted research as a postdoc for 4 years, working on population genetics and molecular systematics of grape phylloxera, pseudomyrmex ants, and mealybugs. He took a position at Rhodes University in South Africa in 2003 and worked there until 2011. His work there included the cycad weevil work discussed in the book, as well as work in biocontrol. He moved back to the US in 2011 and worked as Senior Environmental Scientist at the California Environmental Protection Agency until retiring in 2019. He has published 7 books of fiction.