East Bay Grease

Name: East Bay Grease
Brand: Recorded Books
Availability: InStock
Author: Eric Miles Williamson
ISBN: 9781490694573

Author: Eric Miles Williamson

Narrator: Johnny Heller

Unabridged: 7 hr 35 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 12/04/2015

Categories: Fiction

Synopsis

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. “Williamson’s writing becomes transcendent. His prose cuts loose in torrid rhythms that evoke the peril and exuberance of jazz.”—New York Times Book Review

Reviews

Goodreads review by The East Bay Review

Eric Miles Williamson is Oakland through and through--not the Oakland of Rockridge hipsters or start-up gentrifiers, but the Oakland of Too $hort, the Oakland of Sonny Barger, the Oakland of Al Davis. The story of T-Bird Murphy, a young man growing up poor and white in 1970's Oakland, East Bay Greas......more

Goodreads review by Chris

Yet another very good writer trying to write a Great American Novel, this one very much the dark, poor underbelly of 60s and 70s Oakland. T-bird Murphy has catastrophic parents and starts the book with an absentee Dad and his abusive mother is a Hell’s Angel chick (it’s the 60s) living with a biker......more

Goodreads review by Andy

I had been looking forward to reading this for a while, and it certainly didn’t disappoint. It charts the coming-of-age of a youngster from a poor and tough neighbourhood of Oakland, a dysfunctional family and a violent background, but endowed with with the family trait of musical talent. Amidst the......more