California Works

by Dwight Holing

Overview

Winner of the Selena McDonald Kennedy Fiction Award. Includes "Gallopers," which was awarded the Arts & Letters Prize for Fiction.
Meet the men and women who dwell on the far side of the California Dream: 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 Hollywood actress on the run from a violent past, a North Coast fisherman whose marriage founders when his son is lost at sea. Spare but lyrical, these beautiful tales of love, loss, and redemption, where place is as much a character as the people, take readers on an unforgettable journey along the deep river of the human spirit.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940161717837
Publisher:	Jackdaw Press
Publication date:	11/08/2013
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Dwight Holing lives and writes in California. His genre-spanning work includes novels, short fiction, and nonfiction. His mystery and suspense thriller series include The Nick Drake Novels and The Jack McCoul Capers. The stories in his collections of literary short fiction have won awards, including the Arts & Letters Prize for Fiction. He has written and edited numerous nonfiction books on nature travel and conservation. He is married to a kick-ass environmental advocate; they have a daughter and son, and a dog who’d rather swim than walk.
Learn: dwightholing.com
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Editorial Reviews

Dwight Holing's work compels us with the texture of its language, entering us like music and insisting that we feel the story on more than one level as we read it. This is a writer who impresses us with his eye and ear and heart.

Poet Laureate of Georgia - Judson Mitcham

Dwight Holing tells brutal, beautiful stories. Whether it's learning a new job, being alone for the first time, losing everything, or any number of experiences, Holing captures that sense of discovery, both good and bad, that being young can have on the whittling away of a naive soul. Holing's style packs a roundhouse kick to the head in each take...it is the story "Salt" that not only pounds on the reader's sensibilities and emotions but claws at the soul.

The Valdosta Daily Times - Dean Poling

Dwight Holing is really a very good writer. He deservedly won an award to this collection of eight very thoughtful stories filled with meaningful attention-getting details. The book includes Gallopers which won a separate award. Gallopers is a very emotional tale. Holing has it develop at just the right pace, not like the horses that gallop in the tale as symbols for the freedom the characters want and need.

Goodreads - Israel Drazin