Debut
Novel Out Now
“A story of adolescent compassion and courage.”
The South Shore Boy
by Brian H Langille
The South Shore Boy is Langille’s first novel. It is the remarkable story of Jamie Larkin, an immature boy coming of age in the 60s in a loveless home.
Jamie is an athletic preteen who is taken under the wing of his father’s police colleague and boxing coach. He also befriends his junior high school wrestling coach as he prepares himself for the challenges of adolescence. Jamie defies vicious bullies, learns about adolescent sex and writes to express his suppressed emotions.
What is to become of Jamie? The answers lie between the covers of The South Shore Boy.
About
Brian
Langille is a former magazine publisher and a popular college professor.
His first nonfiction work was The Huguenot, chronicling the Langille Family’s genealogy, set against 400 years of turbulent history. It begins during the 16th Century Protestant Reformation Wars in France and spans the 18th Century French and Indian War in Canada.
The Tale of the Dragon Knight is a novella of historical fiction. James Marshall is a sixteen-year-old boy who lived in London in 1994 but is about to spend an unforgettable summer visiting his mysterious grandmother. She lives in Avebury, England set in a sacred prehistoric landscape. It is a story of time travel, and the dangers facing a medieval knight.
