A paperback original
Fifty-year-old science teacher Dale Portwit believes that
the peak of his life has come and gone. A failed suicide,
a food fetishist, so isolated that the Best Man at his wedding
is a framed photograph of his former mailman, Mr. Portwit
resolves to live entirely for the moment, to speak his mind
at each turn no matter what the consequences. He sets his
sights upon Mary Ann Tucker, Elkhart Elementary's plump, accommodating
third-grade teacher. Their whirlwind courtship leads to wedding
bands, a house in the suburbs, and an indulgent sex life,
so why aren't they happy? Perhaps a little revenge is just
what this marriage needs.
Decidedly odd, yet also oddly moving, Revenge of the
Teacher's Pet is a skillful mix of comedy, poignancy,
love, memory, obesity, top-ten lists, fish, and murder.
Darrin Doyle’s fiction has appeared in Puerto del
Sol, The Long Story, Cottonwood, Alaska Quarterly Review,
and other publications. He is an assistant professor of English
at Central Michigan University and lives in Mount Pleasant,
Michigan with his wife and two sons. |
