First to Leave Before the Sun - Softcover

Buzbee, Tilton Lewis Dave

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0615179975 ISBN 13: 9780615179971

Publisher: Donkey Hotel Press, 2007

Synopsis

Long-time friends Lewis Buzbee and Dave Tilton join together for a unique literary collaboration, two novellas set in the Central Valley of California. Novelist and essayist Lewis Buzbee (YELLOW-LIGHTED BOOKSHOP, STEINBECK'S GHOST) contributes FIRST TO LEAVE, a fictional account of his family's move from Oklahoma to Modesto in the first years of the Dust Bowl. Dave Tilton, solo recording artist and member of SEVENTH TRIANGLE, adds BEFORE THE SUN, a tale of growing up in Manteca in the 1960s; bookended by the Kennedy assassinations, it's about baseball, sugarbeets, and Catholicism. FIRST TO LEAVE BEFORE THE SUN explores the betrayal of emigration and the emigration of betrayal through the lens of The Golden State's notorious promises. One character here describes a certain song as "tenacious, sticks in the mind and follows for days." These stories will do the same.

Edition details

• Publisher: Donkey Hotel Press
• Publication date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0615179975
• ISBN 13: 9780615179971
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 128