Bob Flaherty was born and raised in Boston and its surrounding towns and now lives in Western Massachusetts with his wife Annemarie. Bob works as a reporter and columnist for Northampton's Daily Hampshire Gazette and also operates a birthday party business with Annemarie. They have 3 sons. Bob has, at various times, been an actor, a director, a cartoonist, a sportscaster, a talk show host, a tour guide, a storyteller, a bus driver for the disabled, a master of ceremonies, a hanger of gutters, a singer of national anthems and a baseball coach.

Bob's first novel: Puff, was published in 2005 to widespread critical acclaim and is being developed into a major motion picture. He s currently writing his soon to be published memoirs that no doubt will leave us simultaneously laughing and crying.

Puff: A Novel

Meet John Gullivan, age thirteen, obsessed with the moles that dot most of his body. Meet his brother Gully, who can't stop laughing at them. Now meet the brothers ten years later, in the middle of the most ferocious blizzard anyone can remember. Set in an Irish working-class suburb of Boston in the 1960s and 1970s, Puff centers on a quest as the soon-to-be-orphaned brothers, posing as rescue personnel, attempt to steer their dilapidated van through insurmountable snow, all to score a bag of pot.

Trapped in their own ruse and forced to act the part of the saviors they are pretending to be, the brothers run into an endless stream of foes and obstacles: the cops, their childhood priest, a knife-wielding maniac, and they all stand in the way of their elusive high. A raucous caper, Puff is as hilarious as it is heartfelt and will resonate with old and young alike.

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