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David Daniel

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David Daniel's stories have appeared in magazines and anthologies alongside work by Ray Bradbury and Richard Matheson. He is author of more than a dozen books, including entries in the St. Martin’s Press prize-winning Alex Rasmussen mystery series: The Heaven Stone, The Skelly Man, Goofy Foot, and The Marble Kite. Other novels include White Rabbit, a novel of the 1960, and the bestselling political thriller The Tuesday Man.

His newest book, Beach Town, a collection of short stories, is a bittersweet look at the loves and losses of characters, young and old, living in a coastal town.

Born in Boston, Daniel has traveled widely and has been a teacher, surfer, tennis coach, clam digger, and brain slicer in the neuropathology lab at Harvard Medica
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Average rating: 3.63 · 179 ratings · 23 reviews · 14 distinct works
Goofy Foot (Alex Rasmussen ...

3.41 avg rating — 29 ratings — published 2004 — 5 editions
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The Heaven Stone (Alex Rasm...

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White Rabbit

3.25 avg rating — 24 ratings — published 2003 — 4 editions
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Reunion

3.75 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 2008 — 4 editions
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The Marble Kite (Alex Rasmu...

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Six off 66

4.14 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 2008
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Ark

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The Skelly Man (Alex Rasmus...

3.36 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 1995 — 3 editions
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The Tuesday Man

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Beach Town by David Daniel
"Beach Town: Stories is, as the title implies, connected stories from a beach town and the people who grew up there in the 1960’s, just before the Vietnam War. Weybridge is a working class place of neighborhoods of small homes where kids do what kids " Read more of this review »
Beach Town by David Daniel
"David Daniel has mastered the written word. His sentences can negotiate any terrain, from love, to innocence, to surprise, to tension, anger, disgust—you name it. You’ll be reading a paragraph, not even noticing the hidden triggers, springs, and wire" Read more of this review »
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Beach Town by David Daniel
"In Beach Town, author David Daniel gives us a feast of nostalgia, based in part of his upbringing in such a place. Though he fictionalizes some of the occurrences, there is truth in the manner of story, and a longing sense of things that are no more," Read more of this review »
Beach Town by David Daniel
"Whenever David Daniel writes something: I read it. Eagerly, happily, most rewardingly. I've said that before; I'm saying it now; and I'll continue saying it for a long time. The stories in "Beach Town" are so eminently readable! Most importantly -- N" Read more of this review »
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