By the end of the 1980s, the candy-apple shine had begun to finally fade on Salisbury Beach. In these eight interwoven short stories, Sean Conway resuscitates the last gasp of this iconic beach town on Massachusetts' north shore. Taking place from the late 1970s through the present day, Salisbury Beach Stories spotlights the hardscrabble characters who populate Conway's fictionalized take on this unpolished gem of a working-class town.