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(More customer reviews)As a friend of mine described NORTHERN CALIFORNIA SHORT STORIES:"...I thoroughly enjoyed them..."
So did I. It has been quite a while that I found myself totally lost to the outside world, completely immersed in what I was reading, but that is what happened when I read the above mentioned book. The stories are deceptively easy to follow, but keep prodding one's mind that there is more to them than meets the eye. The author has a wicked sense of humor and used it subtly - like a touch of jalapeno to augment the flavor of a quesadilla. Never the exaggeration of pathos, just a dispassionate brief description of a situation.
The author brings the story to the reader, straightforward storylines, easy to read. Yet there seem to be little hidden hooks, that make one think and in my case force me to reread the story.
The stories remind me (strictly my own private opinion) of Steinbeck's writings. The book is foremost on my list of gifts to my friends.
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Despite the radio chatter, the half lies, and the coded messages, cautions were exchanged with grave solemnity. The brotherhood of the lost, after a fashion, still had its honor, and we would fish together nobly into economic and physical extinction with our booms out and our holds full of fish and secrets, because the latter was as much a part of our lives as what outsiders saw. Fishing communities are close-lipped. A fisherman sometimes sees things at sea that he does not fully comprehend, mysterious things, things difficult to talk about.
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