Goodreads - Ruth McCleerey
I was really rooting for this hard working man. He had such aspirations for success and around every turn there were roadblocks. Java Man by Harris Gray is a must read for all ages.
Java Man
by Harris GrayView All Available Formats & Editions
What do you do when a nightmare threatens your dream? In the disturbingly funny new novel from the authors of Vampire Vic, Brian Lawson receives a dread diagnosis: cancer. But he won't spare a moment from saving his struggling coffeeshop, even if success comes with his dying breath.
Divorced and ostracized in the rural community, Andrea Goldine sets her sights
Overview
What do you do when a nightmare threatens your dream? In the disturbingly funny new novel from the authors of Vampire Vic, Brian Lawson receives a dread diagnosis: cancer. But he won't spare a moment from saving his struggling coffeeshop, even if success comes with his dying breath.
Divorced and ostracized in the rural community, Andrea Goldine sets her sights on the charismatic java man. Brian's doctors ravage him with chemo and radiation, yet the tumor on his shin grows. Brian drafts Andrea into his battle with a competing coffeeshop, desperate to tap the college campus's retail gold mine. But Andrea yearns for a different partnership...
Passions simmer below the surface of the tight-lipped community. Fresh from prison, North Dakota's legendary basketball goddess dangles a ticket to Brian's campus coffee dreams, and a disgraced scientist's toxin treatment tantalizes. Two miracles for two maladies-with one cure more deadly than the next.
Editorial Reviews
Goodreads - Maribeth Klettke
If you love a book that you can become quickly involved in and be amongst the characters - this is for you. Just as you start to experience the occasional darkness in this tale, one of the numerous one-liners will lighten up the mood and have you in stitches! Not only are Brian's emotions felt to the core, but you will be yearning to read on for the finale of the drama surrounding the tendrils of love, murder, sex, family, and what is or isn't a scientific cure.Goodreads - Delia Hardy
I really enjoyed this book. I liked the main character even if he did have poor taste in women. ;-) I loved the banter between characters and reading about the quirky people you probably find in coffee shops along with the competition between shops.I found the addition of the cancer and treatment surprising and interesting. I look forward to reading more from Harris Gray.
Product Details
- ISBN-13:
- 9780988895737
- Publisher:
- HarrisGray
- Publication date:
- 10/30/2013
- Pages:
- 340
- Product dimensions:
- 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.71(d)
Meet the Author
In the nook seat of Jason Gray's coffee shop, Allan Harris wrote. And eavesdropped, as Jason told stories. One day Allan found waiting for him a little yellow notepad, crammed to the margins with Jason's tales. Allan typed them, touched them up, and called it good. Jason had other ideas.
A collaboration began. The writer and the storyteller. As their tales converged and became inseparable, as they were fused by the stories they told...all the king's horses & men can't un-make Harris Gray again.
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Very, very funny, with a cast of characters reminiscent of "Cheers," "Java Man" features Brian Lawson, the quintessential entrepreneur. Faced with an aggressive cancer and tolerating equally aggressive therapy, our hero is nonetheless fierce in his determination to expand his little shop into a thriving coffee empire. Brian is thoroughly charming and likeable despite a deplorable tendency to use and discard the women in his life. Not since "Main Street" has a novel so effectively captured the essence of small-town life. What a great read!
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