The Lifeguard: Stories

The Lifeguard combines Mary Morris's consummate craft as a storyteller with her gift for dramatic travel writing. In the title story, a teenage lifeguard sees his mystique among the girls on the beach dissolve in a panicked moment when he cannot save a child. In The Glass-Bottom Boat, a mother on her first trip abroad learns about trust from a solicitous stranger.

The Lifeguard is a powerful collection of ten short stories that shows Morris's great sensitivity to men and women at moments of turbulence, uncertainty, and crisis.

Author: Mary Morris
Publisher: Picador USA
Published: 04/15/1998
Pages: 192
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.48lbs
Size: 8.19h x 5.49w x 0.55d
ISBN: 9780312186944

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 5.4
Point Value: 7
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 29499 / Lifeguard

About the Author

Mary Morris's books include the novels House Arrest, The Night Sky, Crossroads, and The Waiting Room; the travel memoirs Nothing to Declare and Wall to Wall; and the highly acclaimed story collections Vanishing Animals and Other Stories and The Bus of Dreams. A recipient of the Rome Prize for Literature, she teaches writing at Sarah Lawrence College and lives in Brooklyn, New York.

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