| California Girl Contributor(s): Parker, T. Jefferson (Author) |
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ISBN: 0061874892 ISBN-13: 9780061874895 Publisher: Harper Perennial OUR PRICE: $14.39 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 2009 Annotation: In this emotionally wrenching tale set in 1960s California, the lives of three brothers are forever changed when the body of a lovely and mysterious teenage beauty queen is discovered in an abandoned orange packing house. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Mystery & Detective - Historical |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 0.94" H x 5.32" W x 8" (0.64 lbs) 400 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1960's - Cultural Region - Western U.S. - Cultural Region - West Coast - Geographic Orientation - California - Sex & Gender - Masculine - Topical - Family |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The Orange County, California, that the Becker brothers knew as boys is no more--unrecognizably altered since the afternoon in 1954 when Nick, Clay, David, and Andy rumbled with the lowlife Vonns, while five-year-old Janelle Vonn watched from the sidelines. The new decade has ushered in the era of Johnson, hippies, John Birchers, and LSD. Clay becomes a casualty of a far-off jungle war. Nick becomes a cop, Andy a reporter, David a minister. And a terrible crime touches them all in ways they could never have anticipated when the mutilated corpse of teenage beauty queen Janelle Vonn is discovered in an abandoned warehouse. |
Contributor Bio(s): Parker, T. Jefferson: - T. Jefferson Parker is the bestselling author of seventeen novels, including the Edgar(R) Award winners California Girl and Silent Joe. Alongside Dick Francis and James Lee Burke, he is one of only three writers who has won the Edgar(R) Award for Best Novel more than once. Parker lives with his family in Southern California. |