California’s Over (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Louis B. Jones
- First Published: 1997
- Type of Work: Novel
- Time of Work: Early 1970’s
- Setting: “Seawall” and Marin County, California
- Principal Characters: Baelthon, James Farmican, Julia Farmican, Wendy Farmican, Peter Farmican, Ed Pease, Faro Ness, Dean Houlihan, Gabriel
- Genres: Long fiction, Satire
- Subjects: 1970’s, Family or family life, North America or North Americans, United States or Americans, Gambling, Prostitution or prostitutes, Poetry or poets, California, West, U.S., College life, Inheritance or succession
- Locales: Marin County, CA
California’s Over is the third novel by Louis B. Jones (following Ordinary Money, 1990, and Particles and Luck, 1993), exploring the early 1970’s as an era of lost ideals and cultural confusion. The novel is as much an exercise in social satire as it is an attempt to recapture the look and feel of an era that seems hopelessly remote. The novel shifts between 1997 and 1973, as the narrator, Steve (also known as Baelthon), wanders down the corridors of his memory, a trip prompted by the reappearance of a woman from his past.
In 1973, a seventeen-year-old...
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