<p>Swimming runs in the Livingstone family, so to speak. And to sixteen-year-old Teddy Livingstone, as he follows in the wake of his two older brothers, life often seems more like a relay race than even he would like. There is no doubt who anchors that relay. His oldest brother, Chip, a senior in high school, is the fastest of the boys in the water, as seems only right. Billy is the in-between brother: not the youngest, not the fastest. But Teddy is in between in his own way. 'The Starting block' tells the story of the first of three big swimming meets in the suburbs of 1967 Pittsburgh that make the brothers rivals and teammates at the same time. The events of that crucial swimming season force Teddy to choose which of his brothers to forgive-Billy for losing or Chip for winning. Those months hold events for Teddy besides the hundred free. He falls in love for the first time. All along he has to figure out how to think about girls, if your family can be your friends, whether love can be won or lost like a race. It helps Teddy to recount those events in his own way; he likes to think he is ghost writing his life. Sometimes he speaks in the first person; sometimes he prefers the distance of the third person. This method suits his divided self-torn between childhood and adulthood, between love and the illusion of love, but above all between brothers.</p>

The Starting Block

Literature & Fiction

McCutcheon, Robert

Humor & Satire

Bellissima Pub Llc

The False Start

Robert McCutcheon continues the Flipturn Series with his second book, 'The False Start'. Teddy faces continuing conflict with his inner self and the outside world. Sometimes life is full of stops and starts and lines you wonder if you should cross, and Teddy's life seems to be filled with these things right now. Billy surprises Teddy with a trip to a hidden local swimming hole, and Teddy is amazed at what he finds there. His relationship with Cindy moves to the next level, and he has an unexpected encounter with a strange girl who he decides is pretty. Teddy has banned himself from swimming for now because of his shoulder injury, but he is still cheering for his team. Find out what happens when his brothers face Progar a second time in the relay re-match, and find out if Billy redeems himself and whether the team wins the swim meet. Robert McCutcheon, Phd, has degrees in English from Duke, Oxford and Stanford and teaches at Davis and Elkins College in West Virginia where he can be found most days at noon in the pool. This book is also available in a hardcover edition with a dust jacket.

Genre Fiction

Bellissima Publishing

Robert McCutcheon continues the Flipturn Series with his second book, 'The False Start'. Teddy faces continuing conflict with his inner self and the outside world. Sometimes life is full of stops and starts and lines you wonder if you should cross, and Teddy's life seems to be filled with these things right now. Billy surprises Teddy with a trip to a hidden local swimming hole, and Teddy is amazed at what he finds there. His relationship with Cindy moves to the next level, and he has an unexpected encounter with a strange girl who he decides is pretty. Teddy has banned himself from swimming for now because of his shoulder injury, but he is still cheering for his team. Find out what happens when his brothers face Progar a second time in the relay re-match, and find out if Billy redeems himself and whether the team wins the swim meet. Robert McCutcheon, Phd, has degrees in English from Duke, Oxford and Stanford and teaches at Davis and Elkins College in West Virginia where he can be found most days at noon in the pool. This book is also available in soft cover edition.

Suffer the Children

Suffer the Children: Novellas, Short Stories, and a Parable

Resource Publications

<p>The stories in Suffer the Children dramatize a generation's mingled faith and doubt."Suffer the Children," the title novella, follows the divergent faith journeys of three baby boomers raised in the same Presbyterian church through pivotal moments in their lives until they converge at a funeral.In "Simple Gifts," a childless and recently fatherless man questions the nature of charity on a church mission to Kenya.Two unlikely friends, one Christian and one Jewish, pursue an interfaith discussion in "The Disputation" in the context of graduate school, which poses its own challenges to their identity."The Last Miracle: Incident at Nain" recounts a New Testament story from a fresh perspective. In "The Rapture," a pastor questions whether the non-attending spouse of one of his members can be saved--or whether, since he seems so happy, he needs to be saved.A college campus is the setting of "The Recommendation," the story of a student and a perplexing professor who seems to hold, or rather withhold, the answers to life's big questions."The Passenger" follows the experience of a spiritual seeker led by an enigmatic dream to consider a new life in the church.</p>

Resource Publications (CA)

Robert McCutcheon continues his story of three brothers, one of whom contemplates the meaning of being one of three and wonders why all biblical teams of brothers seem to appear in pairs of two, as he struggles to decide if he should love his brothers, be part of a team of three, or move beyond the ordinary expectations of brotherhood. Find out what Teddy does and decide for yourself if he is a help or a hindrance in this familial relationship of three. Woven between matters of friendship with others, loyalty and love, amid questions about girls and what is right and wrong, experience a winter and time of profound change in Teddy as he grows toward adulthood. Robert McCutcheon, PhD, a college professor at Elkins College in West Virginia, has degrees from Duke, Stanford and Oxford, and brings an introspective of Pittsburgh 1967 that is memorable and fun and highly descriptive as well as introspective. This is the third book in 'The Flipturn Series,' written by Robert McCutcheon and published by Bellissima Publishing, LLC. This series has a mature teen target audience, but it can be and is enjoyed by all

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The Starting Block

The False Start

The False Start

Suffer the Children: Novellas, Short Stories, and a Parable

Suffer the Children

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