Spooner

By: Pete Dexter

Fiction

warren spooner was born after a prolonged delivery in a makeshift delivery room in a doctor's office in milledgeville, georgia, on the first saturday of december, 1956. his father died shortly afterward, long before spooner had even a memory of his face, and was replaced eventually by a once-brilliant young naval officer, calmer ottosson, recently court-martialed out of service. this is the story...