Wild California by Victoria Nelson


Wild California by Victoria Nelson by Victoria Nelson

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Title: Wild California
Author:Victoria Nelson
Publisher: Five Leaves Publications
Format: Paperback
Pages: 160
Price: £7.00
ISBN: 978-0-907123-84-2
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Wild California by Victoria Nelson

Victoria Nelson’s stories, set in her native California, and New Zealand, link vivid natural settings with characters caught up in events not of their making. A San Francisco poet is kidnapped by the Russian Mafia; an American visiting a provincial New Zealand town is gradually caught up in her host’s immersion in Maori culture; a hapless stockbroker is pursued by a woman living in an abandoned school bus; a Halloween party on a Sausalito houseboat takes on an unexpected dimension.

Victoria Nelson’s previous books include a study of the supernatural grotesque, The Secret Life of Puppets (winner of the Modern Languages Association award for comparative literary studies). She is also the co-translator of Letters, Drawings, and and author of a travel memoir about Hawaii. All the stories have been published in magazines, including Raritan and Southwest Review. This is her first book for Five Leaves.


Reviews of Wild California


*****10 January 2006
Reviewed by customer: Thomas Riley

From an incidental brush with the Russian Mafia in California to an anthropologist gone bush, this series of stories gets wild alright!
A Bolinas Venus is a Venus of Willendorf in string bikini with a musky smell and an ability to humanize a younger X'er. A defrocked priest and suicide in En Zed reaches out for salvation from dissolution to an American academic only to sink horribly into oblivion a half a world from home.

These stories hint prehistory and Poe, sophistication and H. P. Lovecraft. The images are wonderful and they are grotesque. I couldn't put it down.

Slick and deep at the same time!

Thomas Riley

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