In 1964 Bob Boone started his teaching career in Staten Island, New York. Since then, he has taught in Germany, Highland Park, Chicago, and many other places. In 1991 he founded Young Chicago Authors, an organization that gives young writers a chance to express themselves. In 2010, Michelle Obama presented Bob with an award for his work with young people in the city. He has written a teaching memoir, a biography of Cub legend Hack Wilson, several textbooks, numerous articles, and two books of short stories. CITY U is his third book of stories. In 2019, WILLOW REVIEW MAGAZINE named... Read More
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“From the outside looking in, a small city college appears rather pedestrian, a weigh station for those unable to make a more elite school work but still hopeful of moving up some ladder or another. From the inside looking out, the perspective is much more refined, complicated, and intriguing. That is what Bob Boone does in his new short story collection, City U: he inverts the lens.”
Summary
The stories in CITY U, Bob Boone’s third work of fiction, feature the inhabitants of a large city school – teachers, students, old folks, volunteers, administrators and a whole lot more. In a world such as this, things can happen.
*A counselor is asked to do something stupid.
*A former teacher, chaperoning a City U trip to Morocco, receives anonymous notes
*Two students decide to perform an act of mercy.
*A basketball player, who left City U to go big time, decides to do something else with his life and, at the same time, prevent a murder from taking place.
*An English professor, on one of the worst days of his life, discovers something that matters.
*A failed radical, his grieving widower father, and a seriously angry drama queen find themselves in a room together.
*An administrator decides what to do about an unwelcome visitor from his past
*A senior center coordinator tells his girlfriend why he ended a friendship years ago back in Wisconsin.
*A returning student and his idealistic Ivy League neighbor try to rewrite the town’s history.
Rather than “proving” a point, the stories in CITY U illustrate the human condition.