California Fiction – serie
Visar alla böcker i serien California Fiction. Handla med fri frakt och snabb leverans.
13 produkter
Golden Days
Av Carolyn See
Häftad, 1996
394 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Available again in paperback, Golden Days is a major novel from one of the most provocative voices on the American literary scene. Linking the recent past with an imagined future, Carolyn See captures life in Los Angeles in the 70s and 80s. This marvelously imaginative, hilarious, and original work …
In the Heart of the Valley of Love
Häftad, 1997
296 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Cynthia Kadohata explores human relationships in a Los Angeles of the future, where rich and poor are deeply polarized and where water, food, and gas, not to mention education, cannot be taken for granted. There is an intimate, understated, even gentle quality to Kadohata's writing--this is not an …
Ford
Av Mary Austin
Häftad, 1997
427 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Mary Austin's 1917 novel illuminates one of the crucial issues in California history--the usurpation of water from the Owens Valley. Ranging from the eastern Sierra to the financial district in San Francisco, the plot portrays the frenzied speculation in land and resources, labor protests, and …
Skin Deep
Av Guy Garcia
Häftad, 1997
345 kr
Lägg i varukorg
The narrator of Skin Deep is David Loya, a second generation Chicano from the East L.A. barrio. With a degree from Harvard Law School he is a rising star in a major New York law firm. He returns to L.A. in response to an urgent request from a Harvard friend to find a missing illegal Mexican named …
Chez Chance
Häftad, 1997
361 kr
Lägg i varukorg
A freak accident has left young Frank Eastman a paraplegic--a "wild card" who needs to "pair up with someone or something or he won't pass back into existence." Los Angeles, the scene of his accident, is where he imagines this existence to be. He settles into a rundown motel near Disneyland, his …
Vineyard
Av Idwal Jones
Häftad, 1997
394 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Set in the Napa Valley at the turn of the century, this novel beautifully evokes the characters' love of the land and the rhythms of life lived close to the earth and its seasons. Spirited Alda Pendle is the daughter of a viticulturist who has taught her his craft. When he dies, leaving her without …
Home and Away
Häftad, 1998
427 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Spanning the 100-day Persian Gulf War and a small California town's girls' basketball season, Home and Away is the story of Hedy Gallagher Castle, a woman who has reached a crossroads in her life. A straddler by nature, Hedy finds herself doing a balancing act on all fronts as her daughter …
Words of My Roaring
Häftad, 1998
443 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Set in a small town south of San Francisco during World War II, Words of My Roaring is a compelling picture of the confusions, the dislocations, and the brutality of war as they affect the home front. The novel recreates a neighborhood in San Bruno and connects it to San Francisco and the larger …
Valley of the Moon
Av Jack London
Häftad, 1999
389 kr
Lägg i varukorg
A road novel fifty years before Kerouac, "The Valley of the Moon" traces the odyssey of Billy and Saxon Roberts from the labor strife of Oakland at the turn of the century through Central and Northern California in search of land they can farm independently - a journey that echoes Jack London's own …
Ghost Woman
Häftad, 1999
427 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Based on a chilling historical event, Ghost Woman is a tale of the arrogance of colonizers, rape, guilt, punishment and retribution. It is set on the Southern California coast during the early nineteenth century, when Catholic missionaries rounded up all the local Indians except those still living …
Thieves' Market
Häftad, 1997
575 kr
Lägg i varukorg
A dark, fast-paced proletarian novel originally published in 1949, Thieves' Market was written out of the author's youthful experiences as a trucker carrying produce to the packing houses of California's Central Valley. Immigrant Nick Garcos, like his father before him, becomes an independent …
Thieves' Market
Inbunden, 1997
1329 kr
Lägg i varukorg
A dark, fast-paced proletarian novel originally published in 1949, Thieves' Market was written out of the author's youthful experiences as a trucker carrying produce to the packing houses of California's Central Valley. Immigrant Nick Garcos, like his father before him, becomes an independent …
Understand This
Häftad, 2000
293 kr
Tillfälligt slut
Jervey Tervalon's novel about young people in South Central Los Angeles grows out of his experience teaching in a high school there and his pain at the death of one of his favorite students.
