Publisher's Synopsis
These 11 personal essays by Haslam explore the people and places that most influenced this popular California writer. Gerald W. Haslam has published six collections of short stories - most recently ""That Constant Coyote"" which was awarded the PEN/Oakland Josephine Miles Prize for Excellence in Literature. Haslam's career as a writer has been marked by his use of California's rural and small-town areas, its poor and working-class people of all ethnic backgrounds, to explore the human condition.
