California's Over

Name: California's Over
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ISBN: 9780679746003

ISBN-10: 0679746005

ISBN-13: 9780679746003

Edition: N/A

Authors: Louis B. Jones

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California's Over leads us down an unmarked road to the coast and then deep into the rotten, labyrinthine house where James Farmican, the famous poet, shot himself to death years ago, leaving behind a legacy of adulation and bankruptcy. Now his family is leaving, and the young narrator--who calls himself Baelthon--has been hired to haul the furniture onto the lawn and sort through the attic and basement. But as Baelthon excavates, he also discovers layers of family mystery and comedy and cruelty, all of it piled too deeply for anyone to sort out: the unexplained disappearance of Farmican's ashes, the unfinished novel that may actually be his suicide note, the opera about cannibalism that…

Book details

List price: $19.00
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 10/27/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.858
Language: English