Book Title: Boys on the Edge
Genre: Memoir
Summary:
It’s the summer of 1969. The country is on edge with civil rights, desegregation, Vietnam, and the Cold War. Four teenage boys set out for adventure on Cape Lookout – a remote island along North Carolina’s Southern Outer Banks. Diving headlong into their new freedom, they quickly discover the edges of fun and foolhardiness, life and death, and love and loss. Risky surfing, water skiing, and driving are their outlets for anger, shame, isolation, and guilt. Cuts and bruises become their badges of growing trust in each other, as they struggle together through adversity toward manhood.
In Boys on the Edge, author Sam Bass invites readers to vividly experience the summer of ’69 as he did, listening to the music of a loud, hopeful generation, on a beautiful and dangerous island called Cape Lookout.
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Author Bio:
Sam was born in March of 1953 in Beaumont, Texas. He was raised in Sanford, NC. and graduated from Sanford Central High School. He received his B.A. in English Literature from Hampden-Sydney College in Virginia and a Master’s in Business Administration from Wake Forest University.
Until recently, all of his post-graduate career has been spent in finance. Following the sale of his company, Beacon WealthCare, in 2021, he moved from Raleigh, N.C. to Atlantic Beach to begin a new career writing.
His first book published in March of 2024, Boys on the Edge, is a coming-of-age memoir on the North Carolina Outer Banks. He is currently working on an action novel that explores a fascinating application of artificial intelligence.
When he’s not writing, you’ll find Sam sailing, water skiing, and boating at Cape Lookout, N.C. with his kids and grandkids.
Website: sambassauthor.com/
