Download or read book Short Stories by California Authors written by Anonymous and published by . This book was released on 2019-03-04 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Short Stories by California Authors written by and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Piece of Mine written by J. California Cooper and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2011-01-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The extraordinary debut short story collection from the award-winning author of Family and Life is Short But Wide. "In its strong folk flavor, Cooper's work reminds us of Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston ... It is a delight to read." —Alice Walker, Pulitzer Prize winner and bestselling author "The label 'short' story is a woefully inadequate description of these intensely, explicitly moral tales. 'Parable' is more appropriate. Cooper's stories are rich in wisdom and insight." —Belles Lettres
Download or read book TREMORS SHORT FICTION BY CALIFORNIA WRITERS written by Ken Branch and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-09-29 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eight writers -- four women and four men -- have gathered together to present this soul-stirring collection of contemporary fiction -- one that is sure to whet your appetite for more from these very talented authors. As one of them reminds us: "Here is the voice inside me which says: 'I am shaking the teardrops frozen in time with my literary tremor from a faraway land . . .' I think everyone has stories that are meant to shake or create waves to the uncharted mind."
Download or read book Short Stories by California Authors written by Various and published by Sanford Press. This book was released on 2008-05 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
Download or read book It s All in the Story California written by D. P. Lyle and published by . This book was released on 2017-10-21 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Southern California Writers Association presents It's All in the Story, a collection of exceptional short stories with a focus on California, edited by bestselling author D. P. Lyle. In these two dozen taleswhich span from San Juan Capistrano in 1812 to the Bay Area in the present-dayyou'll meet a host of memorable characters, each facing unique personal challenges: a society-page writer who lands in the middle of a criminal investigation, a young woman struggling with her past and unsure of her future, three Caltech nerds making plans to break Vegas, a couple of bank robbers who get much more than they bargained for, a fallen angel on a quest, a young boy seeking the elusive pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. These and many more fascinating characters and captivating stories await you within these pages.
Download or read book California Tales written by Jane Ciabattari and published by Shebooks. This book was released on 2014-05-21 with total page 59 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three stories reflecting California’s intense pressures and addictions: Sparkling Arabella, high on crystal meth astride a Harley, ascends into the stars. Will she find grace at last? A boy, a girl, and a dog meet in the Viper Room, looking for love on the eve of a devastating Los Angeles earthquake. And Silicon Valley, once filled with apricot orchards, becomes a dream killer for a workaholic on the verge of cashing in.
Download or read book Great California Stories written by Arthur Grove Day and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1991-01-01 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1510 a Spanish romancer described an island called California, "very close to the side of the Terrestrial Paradise." It was inhabited by Amazons, and even the harnesses of the beasts they rode were gold. Thus began the rich literature of California. In a place that boasts so many claims to one's attention, short fiction has flourished. Great California Stories trumpets the immense short story tradition developed by visitors like Mark Twain and Ambrose Bierce but mostly by natives like Jack London and John Steinbeck. The twenty-one stories in this anthology go back to the oral tradition of the American Indians and recall the Hispanic settlement, the gold rush of the 1850s, the agricultural epoch, the growth of cities like San Francisco and Los Angeles, the foibles of early Hollywood, and the rise of ghettos. The ethnic diversity of California is reflected in a cast of story characters including Indians, mission fathers, Asians, Mexican Americans, African Americans, and forty-niners and landseekers from the eastern states. California's varied scenery is drawn on in stories with a strong sense of place, whether Steinbeck's Salinas Valley or Raymond Chandler's Los Angeles. Besides Steinbeck and Chandler, authors represented are Theodora Kroeber, Bret Harte, Gertrude Atherton, Mark Twain, Ambrose Bierce, Edwin Cone, Jack London, Idwal Jones, Walter Van Tilburg Clark, Dashiel Hammett, Eugene Burdick, Janet Lewis, Wallace Stegner, and Danny Santiago. For them California is a memorable background, sometimes a fabulous character, always a distinctive quality.
Download or read book All s Fair and Other California Stories written by Linda Feyder and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-09-28 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In present-day Southern California, a diverse group of characters seeks the fulfillment and connection this sunny state has always promised. They come with hopes for a better lifestyle, for a change of perspective, or for the dry, mild West Coast weather. A couple moves to Palm Desert from New York for the arid, warm climate a doctor prescribes and they manage both illness and homesickness. The woman makes an unlikely friend in a young albino boy who teaches her a harsh lesson about the margin for cruelty that resides in us all. A young Mexican woman migrates to California and marries an American man—only to be deserted. A young man is disqualified from the Naval Aeronautical program and returns to his sister’s home, where he struggles with his identity and sexuality. After years of estrangement, a teenage girl travels to California from New York to spend the summer with her father. Between each of the thirteen stories in this collection are interspersed several “snapshot” stories—poetic pauses—that blend a set of images into an artistic visual unit, much like a brief cinematic experience. Every character in this collection is distinct from the next, but all of their stories unfold under the glare of the same Southern California sun—a western desert light so clear and unfiltered that it reveals everything.
Download or read book Journeys and Dreams written by Zach Bohannon and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-07 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: California represents the journeys and dreams of so many Americans. Join us on an exploration of the Bay Area. Enjoy an eclectic and unique set of stories guaranteed to have you California Dreamin'.Journeys and Dreams represents the culmination of the third "Authors on a Train" experience led by Zach Bohannon and J. Thorn-a writers' retreat beginning with a train ride from Los Angeles to Oakland and ending with a residence in the Bay Area where authors collaborated on stories inspired by the history and culture of California.All proceeds donated to East Oakland Community Project, providing transitional homes for the homeless youth of the Bay Area.Stories by: Angela Breen and Mary Lasher, A.B. Cohen and J.P. Douglas, Abigail K. Perry and Kimberly Kessler, James R. Essien and Lon Varnadore, Marianne Hansen and Yvonne Corder, Sheila McQuaid, Zach Bohannon and J. Thorn.For more information visit authorsonatrain.com
Download or read book A List of Books by California Writers written by and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Future Has a Past written by J. California Cooper and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2001-10-16 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the beloved author of Family and A Piece of Mine comes a dazzling new collection of stories featuring ordinary women who discover that love sometimes comes when you least expect it. Vinnie is an overworked and self-sacrificing single mother who gets a second chance at love and independence, in "The Eagle Flies." In "A Shooting Star" a happily married mother of two laments the fate of her beautiful friend Lorene, whose naivete about desire has deadly consequences. In "A Filet of Soul," Luella's luck soon changes when her mother leaves her a modest inheritance, but not as soon as she initially imagines. And in "The Lost and Found," Irene confronts her womanizing boyfriend with the one piece of information that will bring him to his knees. Bursting with earthy wisdom and humor, these warmly engaging tales are a testament to Cooper's gifts as a storyteller.
Download or read book California Works written by Dwight Holing and published by . This book was released on 2018-11-02 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: California Works is an award-winning collection of short fiction whose characters dwell on the far side of the California Dream. These brutal, beautiful stories are told in a style that not only pounds on the reader's sensibilities and emotions but claws at the soul. Place is as much a character as the people who inhabit these works: a war vet who rustles cactus near Palm Springs, a teenager living in the shadow of Disneyland about to be pulled into the draft, a convict looking for redemption, a surfer turned real estate agent in search of his lost youth, a Hollywood star on the run from a violent past, a North Coast fisherman whose marriage founders when his son is lost at sea. The texture of Dwight Holing's language is like music and he has the ability to put the reader into another person's head, young or old, and into that person's world, even as that world is ending.
Download or read book Unfinished Stories California Highway One written by James Morris and published by . This book was released on 2020-06-10 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The idea for Unfinished Stories came to me while I was sitting at my computer staring at a blank screen. No matter how much I sat there looking, I could not come up with any good ideas to write about - I had writer's block. I realized that I was probably only one of many other writers out there that suffered from this lack of creativity. So, I decided to come up with a theme-based book that is full of short stories. The unique thing about this book is none of the stories are complete. They all stop in the middle. I am leaving it up to the reader to finish the story. My first book, "Unfinished Stories," was all based off my photographs that I had taken over the years. I simply looked at the photo and came up with a story. This time, I decided to use a popular state and road trip in that state to come up with stories. If you follow each story, it will take you from Los Angeles, California all the way to Fort Bragg, California along one of the most popular road trips, and one of the most beautiful, in the country, Highway One. Each chapter is titled after a town that can be found on Highway One. The stories are all individual, which means, you can read any chapter and any time - no two chapters are related to any other chapter. I hope you enjoy getting some creative motivation. And I hope you produce some fantastic second parts to all the stories.
Download or read book Visit Me in California written by Cooley Windsor and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2008-08-13 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deftly moving between the comic and the tragic, the sacred and the profane, this collection of short stories is populated by modern children, ancient poets, dying men, and your basic, mundane Greek gods. Windsor turns familiar stories from the Bible and from myth inside out, exploring the feelings of minor characters and looking at events from imaginative perspectives. His prose is rich with detail and emotion and he touches on themes of art and artifice, success and failure, family and its sacrifices, and expectations met or missed. In “The Last Israelite in the Red Sea,” a follower of Moses who dallies during their Exodus finds it more difficult to walk across the bottom of the temporarily displaced Red Sea without shoes. “Four of the Times My Sister Cried” follows a young narrator as his family rehearses for his mother’s death and then, as they must, lives without her. The wry “The Art of War” has characters from Homer to a courtesan talking shop about the battle of Troy from their perspectives. Set as a series of short pieces, “The Fleshly School of Poetry” tells of lessons learned and lessons taught. With its explorations of expectations, “Meet the Author” gives readers intimate portraits of various plans or coping mechanisms people put up when death draws close. “The End of the World” approaches the Rapture with a humorously practical spin: wouldn’t the angels need a plan to ensure that it goes smoothly? “In Parting” explores some of the troubles with family, especially when a sister’s child turns out to be a marionette. The geographically explicit “Three Mediums in San Francisco” touches on frustrated and imagined eroticism. The collection ends with “The Hilton Epiphany,” a fitting closer in which divinity comes to an unlikely person in an unlikely place.
Download or read book Four Sad Tales written by Roger Armbrust and published by . This book was released on 1988-09-01 with total page 19 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Four Sad Tales consists of four individual, small hand-made books, each with a single short-short story by a different writer, & each bound in different, fine print materials. These books constitute BBP's 'Brief Book' series. LESLIE IN CALIFORNIA, typeset, printed & bound by hand, is a short-short story by Andre Dubus: The wages of violence in marriage. Signed & numbered. Limited to 300 copies. Paper: $9.00. FINAL GRACE, made entirely by hand - typesetting, printing & binding, is a short-short story by Roger Armbrust: How the last people on earth face their fate. Signed & numbered. 250 limited edition copies. Paper: $9.00 HAPPILY EVER AFTER, a handcrafted edition, is a short-short story by Tom Tolnay: The ironies of aging. Original art printed in maroon. Limited to 300, numbered & signed by author & artist Alfred P. Ingegno, Jr. Paper: $9.00. WINDOW, a hand-made book, is a short-short story by William Oppenheimer: The poignant indelibility of lost love. Limited to 250. Signed & numbered. Paper: $9.00.
Download or read book Where I m Calling from written by Raymond Carver and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The last collection published during Carver's life, "Where I'm Calling From" contains 37 of his best stories and reflects his development as a writer over a period of more than two decades.
