DOWNLOADS Midnights: A Year with the Wellfleet Police by Alec Wilkinson, Alec Wilkinson

Midnights: A Year with the Wellfleet Police by Alec Wilkinson, Alec Wilkinson

• Midnights: A Year with the Wellfleet Police
• Alec Wilkinson, Alec Wilkinson
• Page: 232
• Format: pdf, ePub, mobi, fb2
• ISBN: 9781567927511
• Publisher: David R. Godine, Publisher

Download eBook

Free downloadable books for computer Midnights: A Year with the Wellfleet Police

Overview

“Midnights is both a comedy of errors and an affectionate portrait of small-town police, those beleaguered souls charged with the task of keeping their neighbors in line....A reminder that those assigned to protect are often vulnerable and quietly heroic.”—Time Funny, touching, revealing, here is the view from a rookie cop’s patrol car, during midnight shifts, in a (mostly) peaceful town. With a rich cast of characters, this is a classic memoir of the fear, surprises, excitement, embarrassment that comes with a protecting and serving a small community. “When I was twenty-three years old, five months out of college, with a degree in music, and without any idea of what to do with myself, I took a job as a policeman in Wellfleet, Massachusetts,” so writes Alec Wilkinson. “Music, huh?” the police chief said during the job interview. “That'll be a big help.” Wilkinson’s main qualification was familiarity with the town of 2,000 people from summers there growing up. Committing himself to a year wearing a uniform and carrying a gun, and with no training, Wilkinson was sent out to keep the peace, hoping nothing would happen. There are high-speed chases and stopping drunk drivers, one of whom tries to set Wilkinson's hair on fire. There are domestic squabbles. “The first six months were murder for me,” Wilkinson’s partner confides on his first night. “After that, when I found out the people I thought were my friends weren't really my friends, I felt better off.” There is an attempted bank robbery. The teller convinces the robber that his haul ($300) is too much to carry around in cash. The robber is still listening to investment options when the police arrive. Throughout there are conversations with his eight fellow officers who Wilkinson comes to respect and admire. “Nobody ever calls you when they're behaving themselves,” one admits. “As a rule, you always get called when people are at their worst. It's sad. It depresses me.” The job is often thankless. “Right now I work on the police force,” another officer says, “my wife stamps cans in the supermarket, and she makes more money than I do.” This is experiential journalism at its most poignant and entertaining—and it launched the career of Alec Wilkinson: writer, interviewer, essayist, and author. This is for any reader looking for insight into the real lives of police officers, outside of large cities, across America. It is also for anyone looking for a marvelously engaging read. Midnights is part of Godine’s Nonpareil series: celebrating the joy of discovery with books bound to be classics.

Links: LA EVALUACION FORMATIVA leer el libro site, EL TATUADOR DE AUSCHWITZ HEATHER MORRIS ePub gratis read book, Online Read Ebook Les hommes viennent de Mars, les femmes viennent de Vénus pdf, [PDF] Evaluation écologique des aménagements paysagers download download link, CIUDADELAS DE LA SOBERBIA leer epub MARTHA C. NUSSBAUM here, PDF [DOWNLOAD] Blood on the Tracks, Volume 10 by Shuzo Oshimi, Shuzo Oshimi on Iphone pdf, {pdf descargar} CASOS CLÍNICOS DE GINECOLOGÍA Y OBSTETRICIA read book, Descargar PDF OPERACION BIKINI read pdf, PDF [Download] Self-Portrait in Black and White: Unlearning Race by Thomas Chatterton Williams download pdf,