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Loading... Last Night at the Lobsterby Stewart O'Nan
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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. It's the last day for this Connecticut Red Lobster because the store has not been performing as well as others. Manny and his incredibly shrinking staff deal with the customers, the emotions of a last day and departures, and other normal everyday issues. While there is not a lot of plot action, I suspect that persons who have worked in the restaurant industry as wait staff, cooks, managers, etc. will enjoy this quick and short read. While there is a little bit of foul language, it's not as pervasive as that found in other novels and not beyond what you might expect under the circumstances and from the character using it. (  ) thornton37814 | Nov 18, 2009 |  Fast read -- 146 pages and smaller (h/w) than your average hardcover. I loved O'Nan's A Prayer for the Dying some time ago, but I hadn't read anything else by him since then because the newer plots didn't grab me. This one was getting exceptional reviews and sounded like a nice slice-of-life piece. And it was. The characters were realistic and (mostly) sympathetic. I was originally leery of the main character and his mistakes, but I ended up liking him too. Never waited tables myself, but the setting felt plenty realistic from an outsider's perspective. Appreciated the lack of smarmy dramatic twists. Very little fleshing out of some of the supporting characters, but -- again -- it was 146 pages and small, so the fleshing out really didn't feel necessary. We already know those people, after all. (  )1  kristenn | Nov 17, 2009 | It's the last day/night the Reb Lobster will be open and Manny is dreading closing up for good. Saying goodbye to the staff, especially Jackie, will be hard. As a snowstorm develops throughout the last day, everything just seems to get harder....until it is just over. (  ) RABooktalker | Nov 13, 2009 | Felt as if I was there experiencing the feelings and emotions of Manny as he worked the last shift with his long-time employees in a Red Lobster restaurant. Sometimes sad, sometimes humerous, interesting to the end. Extremely descriptive narrative brings the story to life. (  ) sharlene_w | Nov 5, 2009 | An engaging short novel about the closing night at a suburban Red Lobster. I wouldn’t say there’s much plot, but there are a lot of interesting details and some nicely drawn characters. ( ) sturlington | Sep 15, 2009 |  no reviews | add a review
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