Bill Barich

We do not take a trip; a trip takes us, John Steinbeck noted in his 1962 classic, Travels with Charley. In the summer of 2008, Bill Barich stumbled upon a used copy of Travels in Ireland, where he has lived for the past eight years, and it inspired him to explore the mood of the United States as Steinbeck had done almost a half century before. With a hotly contested election looming, and in the shadow of an economic meltdown, Barich set off on

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A novel of California featuring a romance between the manager of a vineyard and the boss' daughter. He is Arthur Atwater, she is Anna Torelli and they meet when she returns home from New York. Several social issues are treated, including the life of California's Italians and illegal immigration. A first novel by the author of Big Dreams.