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Coming of Age in California Second Edition - Adding Seven Essays Including the Preface View Contents.
COMING OF AGE IN CALIFORNIA was selected one of the 20th century's top 100 nonfiction books from the West by a San Francisco Chronicle readers' poll. Read an essay from this book

These intense personal essays, dealing with everything from dogs to cancer, follow a fifth-generation Californian from a blue-collar boyhood to a white-collar manhood, revealing several regions of the state and even regions of the soul.

Reviewer comments! "This is not a literary biography, but a revelation of self in public confession, without guilt, of humble beginnings that produced a brillant literary man....It is his naked honesty that strikes so deep, that makes me care so much, honesty that makes the writing tough and never close to sentimental." — Floyd Salas, from the Foreword "Haslam celebrates his California heritage ... with affection, and understanding." — Wayne Saroyan, The San Francisco Chronicle "...a touching and honest book by a great California writer and thinker." — Dale Walker, The Rocky Mountain News "In revealing himself, the author also inevitably unfolds his backdrop, the terrain for these essays -- California itself." — Holly Johnson, The Sacramento Union "His lucid, crisp prose punctuates the struggle to find something special about his state -- and his own experience in it." — Len Fulton, Small Press Review

Coming of Age in California is available in paper and E-book from: Devil Mountain Books, P.O.Box 4115, Walnut Creek, CA 94596. or Amazon.com.