Beer Tap Tales Confessions of a New Hampshire Barkeep

Desperate to escape a threatening client in Virginia in 1977, Teddy ditches his social work job and moves to rural New Hampshire. This slightly apprehensive young man has no idea that he'll soon be coping with even more maddening people when he opens a pub. In these stories, some of Teddy's customers keep him wondering just when they'll cross the line from eccentric to explosive. Rowdy loggers threaten him, people confess terrible secrets, a glass eater unnerves him, and a fourteen-year-old break-in artist engages him in a battle of wits. And Teddy's determined to stay on the good side of a bad cop. Often clearly not in charge, he survives the storms by going with the flow. He wants to strike back at some of the worst characters, but will he follow through? Grab a beer and take a seat in one of his rough-cut pine booths as the action unfolds in these humorous and sometimes uncomfortable situations. No guarantee against splinters.