Podcasts entertainment Arroe Collins: Unplugged & Totally Uncut Author Wesley Moore A Southern Storyteller Igniting Your Imagination With Today Oh Boy

Author Wesley Moore A Southern Storyteller Igniting Your Imagination With Today Oh Boy

Published: May 6, 2024, 2 p.m.

What would a novel that takes place on a singular day in a 1970 southern high school look like?
\u201cFerris Bueller\xa0meets\xa0Ulysses\u201d is how author Wesley Moore III\u2019s wife, Caroline, jokingly summarizes his debut novel,\xa0Today, Oh Boy.
Today, Oh Boy\xa0shares with Joyce\u2019s masterpiece a plethora of well-developed characters Both novels utilize the omniscient point-of-view so that the all-knowing narrator can enter the consciousness of various characters yet provide panoramic overviews of the hustle and bustle of Dublin and Summerville High School.
The book offers, on the one hand, a time-capsule look at a world gone by \u2013 segregation, Vietnam War, and hitchhiking \u2013 and on the other hand, offers a realistic depiction of contemporary high school youth grappling with life\u2019s issues, from the serious to the humorous.

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