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This is an outrageous story that was told to me by a violent and colorful prisoner nicknamed Rooster.
In expanding and retelling that story here, I imagined what some of the characters may have looked like, what they may have said, and even what they may have thought, all based on a composite of people I have known and the experiences I’ve had during my forty-six years spent in fifteen different prisons. It’s also the true story of an older prisoner I befriended named Jack. Jack’s story, while not as violent, is equally memorable – and sadly, all too common in America’s prisons.
This book is about friendship, loyalty, commonalities, and perseverance. Above all, it’s about daring to hope while in an apparently hopeless situation.
So few of us know what day to day life is like inside a prison, what the prisoners do and say to each other. Troy has been in prison, many different prisons for many years, and he knows. He also knows how to tell a good story. He’s a writer, but he’s also an artist, so he did drawings to go with his stories.
A chance meeting between a teenage farm boy and a free-spirited college girl in 1967 becomes a love story that underscores the challenges of the time. Set in rural Vermont over one summer, Of Time and Chance portrays the conflict between unquestioning patriots and a counterculture resisting involvement in the Vietnam War through powerful, understated storytelling and finely drawn characters that resist stereotype. Read more ➔
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Browse Our Books
Below you’ll find Bar Nothing Books’ latest novels and publications.
Notes of a Self-Seeker
This book is a novel about a divided country, the role of journalism in society, and the most tumultuous year in modern American history. Read more ➔
Unexpected Grace
This book is about living and dying -not life and death drama – but what happens to ordinary people under ordinary circumstances. Read more ➔
Spiral
Spiral is one man’s story of the true cost of greenbacks stolen, the interest accrued and his path to redemption. Read more ➔
Concrete and Culture
Personal essays on a wide variety of topics from training oxen and building rustic furniture to the purpose of life and American culture. Read more ➔
Doodlebug
In 1994 two brothers leave rural Vermont and cross the United States in a truck only slightly younger than its passengers. Read more ➔
Father to Daughter
The letters of the editor, Maxwell Perkins, to his daughters with his drawings on almost every page. Read more ➔
A Minor Odyssey
A unique historical perspective from someone who lived it, this is one woman’s odyssey through the second half of the twentieth century. Read more ➔
The Mermaid is Drowning
The poems of a Vermont girl wrestling with the important questions of life and death. A young poet writes her way into adulthood. Read more ➔
Ordinary Magic
A good read for people who like stories of ordinary life, truly rendered, with horses and dogs, children and winter weather. Read more ➔
The Simple Life
The Simple Life is a deeply engaging rural tragedy about well-meaning ordinary people whose lives tangle with each other in a destructive way. Read more ➔
Barry’s Wake Through The Forest
Kameron brings that internal monster to life in the form of a lost and voiceless creature, Barry, who lives in a swamp. Read more ➔