{"product_id":"it-happened-in-hoboken-comic-tales-from-the-waterfront-city-paperback","title":"It Happened in Hoboken: Comic Tales from the Waterfront City - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eEugene C. Flinn\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eIt Happened in Hoboken: Comic Tales from the Waterfront City\u003c\/i\u003e by Eugene C. Flinn is a collection of 21 short stories that include an actress whose strict mother does not know she is going on stage naked, a kid who has words with Santa Claus, an elderly woman who advises the manager of the New York Giants, a mobster who buys a fashionable magazine to impress his girl friends, school children who steal Montcalm's head, a nun who gives the finger to a rude truck driver, a wedding guest who finds himself at the \"Reject Table,\" horse players who unknowingly stumble on two genuine Monet paintings and try to sell them in a Hoboken alley, a gun fight in a funeral home, and more.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eEugene C. Flinn has been writing fiction and non-fiction for well over half a century. Some of the stories in One More for the Road come from his imagination and some from his experiences as a soldier in France during World War II, his years as a newspaper reporter and University professor, and most of all from his 36 happy years of marriage to his wife, Patricia, also a writer and author of The Listerine Lunatic and Other Strange Stories. Besides the 40 tales in this volume Flinn is the author of well over a hundred short stories published in literary magazines in most of the 50 states, Canada, Ireland, and Australia. He recently published It Happened in Hoboken: Comic Tales from the Waterfront City. Over the years he also wrote for Life, Good Housekeeping, Facts on File, Simon and Schuster, and was a Broadway first-night critic for six years. He currently teaches Creative Writing and The Short Story at New Jersey City University.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 180\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.38 x 9.02 x 5.98 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 16, 2006\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42731625742399,"sku":"9781419621239","price":14.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/22448c95aa5ba193657f9de76787b337.webp?v=1765129524","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/it-happened-in-hoboken-comic-tales-from-the-waterfront-city-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}