Welcome to Oakland

ISBN-13: 9781933293806 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 236 str.

Eric Miles Williamson

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The sheer energy and passion and intensity, the linguistic virtuosity of Eric Miles Williamsons latest novel, WELCOME TO OAKLAND, will leave readers breathless. The vigor and uncensored redneck honesty of T-Bird Murphys blue-collar voice will at turns delight, offend, amuse and enrage readers as T-Bird gives us what were not supposed to hear: the groans, gritos and war-whoops of men when theyre not behaving like gentlemen, when theyre out of sight and earshot, when theyre wrapped around their drinks at Dicks Restaurant and Cocktail Lounge or your local workingmans watering hole.In WELCOME TO OAKLAND, the T-Bird Murphy of Williamsons internationally acclaimed novel, East Bay Grease, is now a man. Hes been divorced twice, and he finds himself hiding out in a garage in rural Missouri for a reason were never told, confused and stunned, shell-shocked by the hand life has dealt him. He opens his story, "Im always happiest when I live in a dump, and Ive lived in some serious shitholes," but its difficult to believe him. What unfolds is the story of a workingman who tries his hardest to escape the hell of the Oakland ghetto, who finds honor in squalor, kinship among the broken divorcees of Dicks Restaurant and Cocktail Lounge, dignity and beauty at the garbage dumps where he sleeps in the cab of the scow he drives for a living.