Life Is Pinball

If actuaries are reputedly insurance company dullards who do math,Life Is Pinball's Alroy Shanly might yet be an exception.A recent graduate of Cyprus Polytechnic Institute, Alroy arrives inGalveston, Texas, to work for Atlas Global Insurance. But Alroy knowslife is more than math. He moonlights at an internet website,  taking phonecalls from people with problems as Roy Who Listens.Alroy comes to know what he can influence, what he cannot. In hap-penstance, he discovers his Emma, the two of them bicycling down theten-mile Galveston Seawall sidewalk toward a future at novel's end.