The Stadium Steps

The Stadium Steps is actually two tales. It's the story of a probation officer, the son of a slain police officer, raised by his mother and a parish priest who becomes a surrogate father to the boy. But Father Iggy is more than a paternal figure in the life of Michael O'Shea. The priest becomes his boxing coach and, at an early age, may have sowed the seeds for the traumatic brain injury which leads to O'Shea's placement in a medical facility for patients with brain trauma. O'Shea soon finds that all is not as it appears in the Pacific Dunes Rehabilitative Hospital, and like the carpenter who can't bring herself to hire someone else to repair a broken piece of furniture, O'Shea takes matters into his own hands. At the end of the day, The Stadium Steps is a morality tale, so at its conclusion, like these characters, you ask the same question: "What would you do if you were Michael Ignatius O'Shea?"

Author: Gary L. Joralemon
Publisher: Hawes & Jenkins
Published: 01/23/2024
Pages: 314
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.02lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9781637842492

About the Author
Joralemon, Gary L.: -

Gary L. Joralemon has a bachelor's degree in criminal justice from California Polytechnic

State University, San Luis Obispo, and a master's degree in leadership from St.

Mary's College of California. After thirty-three years in law enforcement, he retired from the

San Luis Obispo County Probation Department, having risen to the rank of Chief Deputy

Probation Officer. Gary has served on the faculties of the Alan Hancock College Law

Enforcement Academy, Cuesta College, and California State University, San Luis Obispo. He

specializes in issues pertaining to law enforcement use of force and ethics. He is a former

Police and Fire Olympian and participated in the 2005 Outrigger Canoe World Championships,

in Molokai, Hawaii. As with his character Michael O'Shea, Gary spent untold hours as a

young man running the steps of Edwards Field on the University of California campus.