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Chez Chance(Paperback)
University of California Press
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22/09/1997
A freak accident leaves Frank Eastman a paraplegic. He imagines his existence to be in Los Angeles, the scene of his accident. He settles in a run-down motel near Disneyland with eccentric neighbour...
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The Vineyard(Paperback)
University of California Press
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22/09/1997
Set in the Napa Valley at the turn of the century, this novel evokes the character's love for the land. Ada Pendle is the daughter of a viticulturist who taught her well but dies, leaving her withou...
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Home and Away(Paperback)
University of California Press
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24/09/1998
Spanning the 100-day Persian Gulf War and a small California town's girls' basketball season, this novel is the story of Hedy Gallagher Castle, a woman who has reached a crossroads in her life. A st...
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Words of My Roaring(Paperback)
University of California Press
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01/10/1998
Set in a small town near San Francisco during World War II, this novel relates the confusions, dislocations, and brutality of war as they affect the home front. We see events through the eyes of a n...
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The Valley of the Moon(Paperback)
University of California Press
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29/06/1999
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 jo...
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Ghost Woman(Paperback)
University of California Press
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27/09/1999
Based on a chilling historical event, this novel is a tale of the arrogance of colonizers, rape, guilt, punishment and retribution. It is set on the Southern California coast during the early 19th c...
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Understand This(Paperback)
University of California Press
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26/10/2000
The author'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.
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In the Heart of the Valley of Love(Paperback)
University of California Press
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07/04/1997
Written by the author of "The Floating World", this novel explores human relationships in a Los Angeles of the future, where rich and poor are deeply polarized and where water, food, gas and educati...
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The Ford(Paperback)
University of California Press
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15/05/1997
Mary Austin's 1917 novel illuminates a crucial issue in California history - the usurpation of water from the Owens Valley. The frenzied speculation in land and resources, labour protests, and femin...
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Skin Deep(Paperback)
University of California Press
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07/04/1997
A novel about coming of age in the new America, a place in which races and cultures have not so much melded as collided and in which no identity is secure.
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