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The Crabber Stories by Francis Bennett (view source)
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|title=The Crabber Stories
|sort=Crabber Stories
|reviewer=Sue Magee
|genre=Short Stories
|summary=A delightful, coming-of-age collection of short stories set on the shores of Long Island in the nineteen-fifties. They work a magic on you and it was a real pleasure to read them. Francis Bennett popped into Bookbag Towers to [[The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Francis Bennett|chat to us]].
|rating=4
|buy=Yes
|borrow=Yes
|pages=134
|publisher=Francis Bennett
|date=January 2012
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John White was known to everyone as Crabber - a nickname which he once earned and which then stuck - and he grew up on the shores of Long Island in the nineteen-fifties. It was a close-knit community and a time when children had more freedom than they are likely to be allowed now. We watch as Crabber grows from being a boy still suffering from the death of his elder brother when we first met him through to a time when he's old enough to go on a hunting trip on the mainland with a local family. He tells his own stories, as truthfully as he can and with the sort of insight which children have before life injects its cynicism.
If you're looking for more short stories we can recommend [[The Man in the Shed by Lloyd Jones]].
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