ISBN: 0-88739-314-4
156 pp.
Size: 6 x 9
Pub Date: 3/2001
Paperback Original
Price: $13.95
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Goof and Other Stories
Sean Enright
Meet Digby Shaw, on the verge of becoming, a teenager and nothing is safe anymore. The world he faces looms larger and fiercer with each passing day...though he is feeling a little fiercer himself. And he's definitely getting bigger. He likes books and fires and tormenting his brother Emmet. And-to his bewilderment-he suddenly likes girls. Regarded as an outlaw by his family, his every move at home is scrutinized by his mother. At school, he's constantly in the bad graces of a huge nun with a man's name, and bullied by a juvenile delinquent. Digby tries to be good when his every instinct is to be bad, and the surprising consequences are both funny and poignant. The rest of these stories are in similar off-the-wall vein.
You see, I'm a goof. I'm klutzy with stuff that's heavy or fragile.
I act like a guy when I'm with guys and like a girl when I'm with girls. I sweat a lot over nothing. Even my name is goofy.
Digby Shaw. Shaw's not so bad, but nobody ever even gets that far.
"Digby? Is that a word? Is that really your name?"
No, a-hole. I made it up so no one would ever know who I was.
Bio: SEAN ENRIGHT'S poetry has appeared in literary magazines, including Threepenny Review, The Kenyon Review, Sewanee Review, and The Southern Poetry Review
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