The Lifeguard: Stories

The Lifeguard combines Mary Morriss consummate craft as a storyteller with her gift for dramatic travel writing. In the title story a teenage lifeguard sees his mystique among the girls on the beach dissolve in a panicked moment when he cannot save a child. In The Glass-Bottom Boat a mother on her first trip abroad learns about trust from a solicitous stranger.. The Lifeguard is a powerful collection of ten short stories that shows Morriss great sensitivity to men and women at moments of turbulence uncertainty and crisis.