John Manderino, author

About

John Manderino

John Manderino is the author of five novels, two short stories collections and two memoirs. A novel titled Bopper's Progress was the winner of the 2017 Wundor International Fiction Award and a runner-up for the 2019 Maine Book of the Year, in fiction. Reason for Leaving (short stories) was Foreword Magazine's Book of the Year - Bronze Award Winner 2001 for Humor. John has also written plays that have been performed at theater festivals and other venues and has had short stories published in periodicals.

Books

  • And Jill Came Tumbling After

    John Manderino delivers here a tender, often darkly funny portrait of two lives, Jill’s and Jack’s, ‎from childhood triumphs and humiliations to teenage awakenings, from an awkward train ‎encounter one late afternoon to a lifetime shared. Told in alternating voices, with humor and ‎heartbreak, this is a book about the way people can fall, continue tumbling, and sometimes, at the ‎bottom of the hill, manage to find one another. ‎

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