Ernest A Finney

All but two of the stories in this, Ernest Finney’s third collection of short fiction, are set in California: in the San Francisco Bay area, the Sierras, the San Joaquin Valley. His diverse characters—a professional wrestler, a bridge prodigy, a wilderness guide, goldseekers, illegal immigrants—are ...

Elaine Walker, a new school teacher in the California town of San Bruno, witnesses the effects of World War II on the town, namely the transformation of the race track into a Japanese internment camp. 15,000 first printing.

The vast, fertile expanses of California's Great Central Valley form the setting of this novel by Ernest J. Finney. This is a world where life and time itself are determined by the rhythms of the crops, and where each of the myriad ethnic groups who have settled here has contributed its own skills a...

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Set in a plum orchard in California, six members of the Clark family narrate this story of a father-son relationship, their connections to the land, and their claims on one another.