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Title: California's over by Louis B. Jones ISBN: 0-679-74600-5 Publisher: Vintage Books USA Pub. Date: 01 November, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.00

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Average Customer Rating: 5 (7 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: Mellow opulence of Marin to desert sleaze
Comment: As I could relate with the age, time and place of the main character's life, I took a ride on the depth given to her by Jones. What a trip! I'm still sitting at the table with them over cioppino wishing everyone would come home again. Well, things surely change as California's Over reveals. I'll have to accept this and jump into another ferment of this writer's cast of characters.

Rating: 5
Summary: Terrific
Comment: A gifted, stylish writer with something new and original to say. Even though the time (1973) and place (Marin County California) and subject (family of a deceased late Beat/early hippie writer) are far removed from my own experience, Jones has the gift of taking you there, spinning you around, getting you interested in the characters and leaving you delighted and enlightened.

Rating: 5
Summary: A Book I'd want to re-read
Comment: I read this in hardcover, and it's amazing. Jones is the only fiction writer I know of now who is truly driven to poetry, that is necessary poetry, not vague lyricism. Every line matters. I live in Saint Louis, MO, and Jones is here at a university to be a visiting writer and just gave a reading of his newest work, about Alaska in 1970, and it heads off in a totally different direction. There's no one writng today with his sincerity and poetry.