Overview :Leroy Upton, the "straight white male" who is the novel s central character, has come a long way from the sun-baked working-class neighborho... Read More
Overview :Haslam divides the state into five regions, selecting prose and poetry from each that reflects their history, terrain, and culture. Many Cal... Read More
Overview :Haslam explores the rural areas and small towns of his native region California's Great Central Valley in this collection of twenty-five sho... Read More
Overview :Haslam s stories are of the quintessential California of working people who struggle to make a living. He is their spokesperson no matter wh... Read More
Overview :This enlarged edition of The other California, originally published in 1990, contains nineteen essays (six of them new to this collection) o... Read More
Overview :One of the most gripping images from the 1960s captures the slight figure of Dr. S. I. Hayakawa scrambling onto a sound truck parked in fron... Read More