Cape Car Blues - Richard Hughes

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Résumé :
A small used car dealer tries to make ends meet from his dealership in tiny Truro, Massachusetts, population 2000. Truro is a beautiful beach community of sand dunes and ocean views. Cape Car Blues is the story of how 6-year old Mikey Mayflower acts out with his pranks then eventually worms his way into the hearts of the used car staff, finding love and acceptance as they fill the role of extra parents for him. The owner, Sam Oscar Shallow, is always trying to think up new schemes to make a profit, many of them ill-conceived and in bad taste. A bureaucratic pair of fish cops show up routinely with their overly officious antics and pester the locals with excessive regulation reminders. An unusual test drive of an orange El Camino bedevils the dealership. A few New England Patriots players stop in and buy classic cars. One woman trades in her horse for a car. A few hapless criminals are in a hurry to buy the six cars they failed to purchase at the car auction. Read Cape Car Blues and immerse yourself into a nostalgic 1975 summer when hope and laughter was in great supply....

Biographie:
Richard Hughes closed his 24-seat safety training center on Cape Cod to become a retired student of modern worldwide shipping operations. He graduated from Massachusetts Maritime Academy with a B.S. in Marine Transportation then obtained a Masters Degree in Business from Lesley University. While at MMA, he sailed on the Bay State, the Lightning, and the Mobil Lube. His books include the Cape Safety, Inc. - Danger Dogs Series-a collection of 6 novels detailing the exciting lives of a top-notch safety consulting firm based out of Woods Hole, MA, and San Francisco, CA. His popular non-fiction Deep Sea Decisions is an expose of maritime tragedies. He and his wife have written seven screenplays, two of which have been turned into novels?Training Ship and Cape Car Blues. They have also co-authored the fictional Newtucket Island. He lives and writes in the seaside village of Waquoit, MA, with his wife and co-author, Lavinia M. Hughes....

Sommaire:
Richard Hughes closed his 24-seat safety training center on Cape Cod to become a retired student of modern worldwide shipping operations. He graduated from Massachusetts Maritime Academy with a B.S. in Marine Transportation then obtained a Masters Degree in Business from Lesley University. While at MMA, he sailed on the Bay State, the Lightning, and the Mobil Lube. His books include the Cape Safety, Inc. - Danger Dogs Series-a collection of 12 novels detailing the exciting lives of a top-notch bi-coastal safety consulting firm. His popular non-fiction Deep Sea Decisions is an expose of maritime tragedies. He and his wife, Lavinia M. Hughes, have co-authored Newtucket Island, Training Ship, Cape Car Blues and Mikey Mayflower - The Early Years. He lives and writes in the seaside village of Waquoit, MA, with his wife....