Coyotes Along Stony Creek

By Robert Zumwalt

California always had a love-hate relationship with newcomers. Coyotes Along Stony Creek assembles two noirish tales about this contradictory and often cruel alter ego of the Golden State.

In The Gift, World War II is on everyone's mind when Eduard Lubeck is befriended by a young Indian boy in the rugged foothills of Northern California.

A 1950s peach orchard near the Sacramento River shows Fred Morgan's true calling in Fred Morgan and the Last Man.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Robert Zumwalt
• Release date: Dec 12, 2011
• ISBN: 9781465803573

Robert Zumwalt

Robert Zumwalt grew up in California's Sacramento Valley where guns, religion, and conservative politics hold sway. Then, he moved to Berkeley where he learned to ask why. He divides his writing hours between stories reflecting the history of his state, and essays on California's competing cultures.

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