Böcker av Eric Miles Williamson

Offers a fictional account of a journey through the nightmare of the American labor inferno. The author joined the Laborers Union when he graduated from high school in 1979 and spent seven years as a gunite construction worker, witnessing atrocities that don't make the evening news.

East Bay Grease, Eric Miles Williamson's now classic first novel, has received worldwide acclaim as one of the great depictions of working-class America in the latter half of the 20th century. The story of T-Bird Murphy, born in the tumultuous 1960s and raised in the ghettoes of Oakland by his mother, who rides with the Hell's Angels, his father, who is an ex-convict, and the father figures who range from musicians to construction workers, East Bay Grease is a novel of dignity, honor, and courage that has been compared to the works of John Steinbeck, Jack London, and Upton Sinclair. Praise for EAST BAY GREASE: "Williamson's writing becomes transcendent. His prose cuts loose in torrid rhythms that evoke the peril and exuberance of jazz." -The New York Times Book Review "A confident debut, an arresting, often harrowing read." -The London Times

Presents a collection of essays on American poets, fiction writers, non-fiction writers, and issues of interest to artists and academics. These essays are brutally honest and acutely intelligent.

Examines the life and work of Jack London and also the author's life and attitudes toward the poor, toward London, Oakland, culture and literature.