People Trying to Be Good

Classic Maine stories. This second collection of Downeast stories by Sanford Phippen deepens and broadens his sympathetic and hilarious exploration of Maine character and ethos begun in his best-selling "The Police Know Everything". His sharp eye and ear bring his people alive in all of their human particulars. We witness kindness, cruelty, striving, failing, but above all we come to understand that Sanford Phippen's Mainers are people trying to be good.