The Plug at the Bottom of the Sea

By Robert Lamb

In order to find the missing sea and put it back where it belongs, a shipwrecked boy and girl and their strange friends undertake a dangerous journey across the empty ocean bed in search of the plug at the bottom of the sea.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
• Release date: Jul 20, 2012
• ISBN: 9781448209781

Robert Lamb

Graduate of the University of Georgia; former editor/writer, The Atlanta Constitution; former adjunct professor, University of South Carolina, (writing and American literature), winner, Excellence in Teaching Award, Mortar Board Honor Society. Novels: -Striking Out (A PEN-Hemingway Award nominee) -Atlanta Blues (an Edgar contender and a Southern Critics Circle Selection) -A Majority of One (Voted "Most Likely To Get Its Author Hanged") -And Tell Tchaikovsky the News ("Good golly, Miss Molly, what a story!" ~Amazon reader) Short Stories and Poems -Six of One, Half Dozen of Another (contains "R.I.P.," winner, 2009 South Carolina Fiction Project; "Black Coffee," Storytelling Excellence Award, July 2008; and the groundbreaking "Rebellion at Fugitive Flats," a surreal excursion into creative writing.

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