Author: Jack Hicks
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520222121
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 667
Book Description
This text is the first volume of a comprehensive anthology of Californian literature. It is divided into four parts and contains material ranging from Native American origin myths to Hollywood novels dissecting the American dream.
The Literature of California, Volume 1
Author: Jack Hicks
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520222121
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 667
Book Description
This text is the first volume of a comprehensive anthology of Californian literature. It is divided into four parts and contains material ranging from Native American origin myths to Hollywood novels dissecting the American dream.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520222121
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 667
Book Description
This text is the first volume of a comprehensive anthology of Californian literature. It is divided into four parts and contains material ranging from Native American origin myths to Hollywood novels dissecting the American dream.
Under the Fifth Sun
Author: Rick Heide
Publisher: Heyday Books
ISBN:
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 584
Book Description
A collection of fiction, poetry, essays, memoirs, and commentary, highlighting more than two centuries of Latino writing from California.
Publisher: Heyday Books
ISBN:
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 584
Book Description
A collection of fiction, poetry, essays, memoirs, and commentary, highlighting more than two centuries of Latino writing from California.
The Churchgoer
Author: Patrick Coleman
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0062864114
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 351
Book Description
Soon to be a an FX series starring and produced by Matthew McConaughey A LitHub Most Anticipated Book of Summer "The Churchgoer is a wonderful debut novel from a writer with more than a few tricks up his sleeve.”--Los Angeles Times A haunting debut literary noir about a former pastor’s search to find a missing woman in the toxic, contradictory underbelly of southern California. “He was finished with church, with God, with all of it. But to find the girl, he has to go back.” In Mark Haines’s former life, he was an evangelical youth pastor, a role model, and a family man—until he abandoned his wife, his daughter, and his beliefs. Now he’s marking time between sunny days surfing and dark nights working security at an industrial complex. His isolation is broken when Cindy, a charming twenty-two-year old drifter he sees hitchhiking on the Pacific Coast Highway, hustles him for a breakfast and a place to crash—two cynical kindred spirits. Then his co-worker is murdered in a robbery gone wrong and Cindy disappears on the same night. Haines knows he should let it go and return to his safe life of solitude. Instead, he’s driven to find out where Cindy went, under stranger and stranger circumstances. Soon Mark is chasing leads, each one taking him back into a world where his old life came crashing down—into the seedier side of southern California’s drug trade and ultimately into the secrets of an Evangelical megachurch where his past and his future are about to converge. What begins as an investigation becomes a haunting mystery and a psychological journey both for Mark, and for the elusive young stranger he won’t let get away. Set in the early 2000s, The Churchgoer is a gripping noir, a quiet subversion of the genre, and a powerful meditation on belief, morality, and the nature of evil in contemporary life.
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0062864114
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 351
Book Description
Soon to be a an FX series starring and produced by Matthew McConaughey A LitHub Most Anticipated Book of Summer "The Churchgoer is a wonderful debut novel from a writer with more than a few tricks up his sleeve.”--Los Angeles Times A haunting debut literary noir about a former pastor’s search to find a missing woman in the toxic, contradictory underbelly of southern California. “He was finished with church, with God, with all of it. But to find the girl, he has to go back.” In Mark Haines’s former life, he was an evangelical youth pastor, a role model, and a family man—until he abandoned his wife, his daughter, and his beliefs. Now he’s marking time between sunny days surfing and dark nights working security at an industrial complex. His isolation is broken when Cindy, a charming twenty-two-year old drifter he sees hitchhiking on the Pacific Coast Highway, hustles him for a breakfast and a place to crash—two cynical kindred spirits. Then his co-worker is murdered in a robbery gone wrong and Cindy disappears on the same night. Haines knows he should let it go and return to his safe life of solitude. Instead, he’s driven to find out where Cindy went, under stranger and stranger circumstances. Soon Mark is chasing leads, each one taking him back into a world where his old life came crashing down—into the seedier side of southern California’s drug trade and ultimately into the secrets of an Evangelical megachurch where his past and his future are about to converge. What begins as an investigation becomes a haunting mystery and a psychological journey both for Mark, and for the elusive young stranger he won’t let get away. Set in the early 2000s, The Churchgoer is a gripping noir, a quiet subversion of the genre, and a powerful meditation on belief, morality, and the nature of evil in contemporary life.
The Literature of California
Author: Jack Hicks
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520215245
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 684
Book Description
This text is the first volume of a comprehensive anthology of Californian literature. It is divided into four parts and contains material ranging from Native American origin myths to Hollywood novels dissecting the American dream.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520215245
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 684
Book Description
This text is the first volume of a comprehensive anthology of Californian literature. It is divided into four parts and contains material ranging from Native American origin myths to Hollywood novels dissecting the American dream.
No Place for a Puritan
Author: Ruth Nolan
Publisher: Heyday
ISBN: 9781597140980
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 345
Book Description
An anthology of literary excerpts inspired by California's fabled deserts includes selections from the writings of local and famous authors including John Steinbeck, Alduous Huxley and Hunter S. Thompson.
Publisher: Heyday
ISBN: 9781597140980
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 345
Book Description
An anthology of literary excerpts inspired by California's fabled deserts includes selections from the writings of local and famous authors including John Steinbeck, Alduous Huxley and Hunter S. Thompson.
A History of California Literature
Author: Blake Allmendinger
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316299074
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 445
Book Description
Blake Allmendinger's A History of California Literature surveys the paradoxical image of the Golden State as a site of dreams and disenchantment, formidable beginnings and ruinous ends. This history encompasses the prismatic nature of California by exploring a variety of historical periods, literary genres, and cultural movements affecting the state's development, from the colonial era to the twenty-first century. Written by a host of leading historians and literary critics, this book offers readers insight into the tensions and contradictions that have shaped the literary landscape of California and also American literature generally.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316299074
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 445
Book Description
Blake Allmendinger's A History of California Literature surveys the paradoxical image of the Golden State as a site of dreams and disenchantment, formidable beginnings and ruinous ends. This history encompasses the prismatic nature of California by exploring a variety of historical periods, literary genres, and cultural movements affecting the state's development, from the colonial era to the twenty-first century. Written by a host of leading historians and literary critics, this book offers readers insight into the tensions and contradictions that have shaped the literary landscape of California and also American literature generally.
Land of Sunshine
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Pacific States
Languages : en
Pages : 784
Book Description
Includes reports, etc., of the Southwest Society of the Archaeological Institutes of America.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Pacific States
Languages : en
Pages : 784
Book Description
Includes reports, etc., of the Southwest Society of the Archaeological Institutes of America.
The Southwestern Historical Quarterly
Quarterly of the Texas State Historical Association
Author: Eugene Campbell Barker
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Southwest, New
Languages : en
Pages : 716
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Southwest, New
Languages : en
Pages : 716
Book Description
Southwestern Historical Quarterly
Author: Eugene Campbell Barker
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Southwest, New
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Southwest, New
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description