Overview

Valley Boy tells the story of Ricky Edwards, a 17 year-old CIO (California Improved Okie) trapped in a soul-eating church and buried in small town Centerville, California for life. To free himself from that heavy-duty church, Ricky rebels against God's word, plots out his future and gets a job debeaking turkeys. He debeaks turkeys because he needs a car. He needs a car because he wants to join the Lifters Car Club. But the big problem is that girls don't go out with guys who wear Frisco jeans and shoes with heel and toe taps. With his father--a skirt chaser--absent, Ricky finds direction in Mr W, his music teacher who guides Ricky out of the Valley by directing him to Berkeley.

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""Once in a while an author mesmerizes me with his or her writing. It is as though I have stepped back in time to the days when writing was truly an art form and not a scientific venture into so much of a percentage of dialogue versus action versus narrative. No worries as to whether or not an agent or editor or some 'God' of the publishing world will approve or not approve...just raw, exquisite writing talent splashed onto the page with such audacity and nerve that it gives you a heartache that burns a hole right through your spirit. That's what I have just experienced in reading Jack Remick's Valley Boy."" Jody Lea Stewart author of Summer of the Ancient.

Author Information

Jack Remick is the author of a series of novels, poems, short stories including The California Quartet, Gabriela and The Widow, Blood, as well as the award winning novels--No Century for Apologies, and Maxine. Remick's poetry includes Satori and Song of Sadness Joy and Despair for the Anthropocene.

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