Life Is Pinball

<p>If actuaries are reputedly insurance company dullards who do math<br><em>Life Is Pinball's</em> Alroy Shanly might yet be an exception.</p><p><br>A recent graduate of Cyprus Polytechnic Institute Alroy arrives in<br>Galveston Texas to work for Atlas Global Insurance. But Alroy knows<br>life is more than math. He moonlights at an internet website <em> </em>taking phone<br>calls from people with problems as Roy Who Listens.</p><p><br>Alroy comes to know what he can influence what he cannot. In hap-<br>penstance he discovers his Emma the two of them bicycling down the<br>ten-mile Galveston Seawall sidewalk toward a future at novel's end.</p>