Beach: Stories by the Sand and Sea
Lencek Lena Bosker Gideon (Editor)
A series of excerpts from other works, not short stories.
Begins with Marine Biologist Rachel Carson writing about intertidal life.
Goes on to talk about how the EU popularized access to Mediterranean Beach Resorts.
Taking a turn toward adult content an American tourist gets rolled by Mexican Gendarmes when he goes out at night and a Divinity Student has the hots for the scantily clad gals he sees from his lifeguard perch. Not certain the relevance of a mistress bedding her paramour. A black insurance executive sets up a beach resort for people of colour all over America.
There doesn't seem to be any unifying theme save that all occur on or near a beach.
A Floor of Flounders
A cold wind had blown hard all night and turned to the North-West. How could there be dew on the grass?
The ten-page excerpt is basically 2 ultra-long paragraphs desperately in need of editing they did not receive.
Nearly sixty years since I read Albert Camus in the original Français. Certainly didn't remember they went to the beach.
Few of the people in these excerpts enjoy being at the beach. Certainly not the couple on a cruise in a state room the size of a broom closet. I share the wife's disdain for canned peas.
When I went on a 2-man tour of Custer State Park and the dead presidents our tour guide remarked that is was novel guiding a pair with no interest in the gift shops. I also invited him to have lunch with us. The tour boat in my latest tale stops at all the island gift shops for Australian junk made in Taiwan there being no aboriginal art available to grace their shelves.
Walking on the Great Barrier Reef sounds like a bad idea.
And the excerpts end with Chekhov and a banker and his mistress in Yalta.
