The Able-Bodied Seaman

by Alan Bowne

From the author of BEIRUT, "a ROMEO AND JULIET of the boroughs", the story of a white, working-class family that resonates to this day.

"Home comes the sailor, home from the sea, which in Alan Bowne's ABLE-BODIED SEAMAN means a hard-drinking lout of a swabby named Roy, showing up unannounced one summer morning at his walk-up in Corona, Queens, and shouting abuse at anyone within earshot. Roy is the kind of guy who may put on a dirty shirt...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0881457108
• ISBN13: 9780881457100
• Release Date: October 2017
• Publisher: Broadway Play Publishing
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 0.23 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.5" x 8.5"