That Constant Coyote: California Stories

by Gerald W. Haslam

Book Overview

Haslam's stories are of the quintessential California of working people who struggle to make a living. He is their spokesperson--no matter what their color or language--because he, too, has chopped cotton under the searing sun, has toiled on drilling rigs in fog thick as oatmeal, has lived in a house where Spanish and English mingled. His writing marks a boundary between the Golden State's stereotypes and the real people who persevere in seeking the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 087417161X
• ISBN13: 9780874171617
• Release Date: May 1990
• Publisher: University of Nevada Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Regional short fiction enriched with voice, depth, & humor

Haslam finds the mystical in the mundane, pearls of innocence in a room full of naivete'. Based in the rustic California Central Valley, Haslam creates a field of characters with rich, vivid voices. Raw and humorous, he often takes readers off guard with his expressionistic storytelling. Please seek and read his entire library