First published in 1983, this story is set in the coastal hills of Northern California between 1880 and the present. The tale revolves around three characters: two humans and one duck. Jim Dodge is the author of "Not Fade Away" and "Stone Junction".

Dodge, Jim

Literature & Fiction

Collins

Recounts the adventures of Granddaddy Jake, his grandson Tiny, and a duck named Fup

Children's Books

Simon&Schuster

Presents the recipes for a variety of desserts including cheese tarts, pumpkin pie, almond cake, apple turnovers, chocolate ice cream, and butter cookies

The American Baker: Exquisite Desserts from the Pastry Chef of the Stanford Court

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Baking

Presents recipes for pies, tarts, cobblers, cakes, pastries, cookies, ice creams and sorbets, and breads

Baking With Jim Dodge

Ratner, Elaine

Kitchen Appliances

George Gastin is a Bay Area tow-truck operator who wrecks cars as part of an insurance scam. One of the cars he is hired to demolish is a snow-white Cadillac that was supposed to be a present for the Big Bopper, who died in the Iowa plane crash that killed Buddy Holly and Ritchie Valens. Gastin has a change of heart and takes off in the car, heading for Texas where the Bopper is buried. Armed with a thousand hits of Benzedrine and chased by adversaries real and imagined, Gastin navigates a road trip that covers many miles and states of mind. Traveling in time from the Beat era to the dawn of the sixties, from the coffeehouses of North Beach to the open plains of America, Gastin picks up some extraordinary hitchhikers: the self-proclaimed "world's greatest salesman," the Reverend Double-Gone Johnson, and a battered housewife with a box of old 45s. As the miles and sleepless hours roll by, Gastin's trip becomes a blur of fantasy and reality fueled by a soundtrack of classic rock 'n' roll.

Not Fade Away

Humor & Satire

GROVE PRESS

Annalee Pearce is a pregnant 16-year-old who has been placed in a corrective centre run by nuns for refusing to co-operate with authorities. Once in there, she soon rebels, breaks a sister's jaw with a "roundhouse right" and, when her son Daniel is born, she steals away into the rain.

Stone Junction

United States

While Jim Dodge is internationally known for his fiction, his first and abiding passion is poetry. After eighteen years of publishing anonymously and reading only to local crowds in the Pacific Northwest, he began to issue occasional limited-edition letterpress chapbooks with a small press, as well as occasional broadsides and, since 1987, a winter solstice poem or story, most given as gifts to friends. Rain on the River contains work collected here for the first time, as well as three dozen previously unpublished poems. Dodge's poems and short prose offer the same pleasures as his fiction -- a splendid ear for language, great emotional range and subtlety, a sharp eye for the illuminating detail, and a sensibility that encompasses outright hilarity, savage wit, and tender marvel, all made eminently accessible through writing of uncompromising clarity and grace. "Like being at a nonstop party in celebration of everything that matters." -- Thomas Pynchon "A rollicking, frequently surprising adventure-cum-fairy tale. It also has a sweetness about it and an indigenous American optimism." -- The New York Times Book Review "Diverse, savvy, passionate.... Poetry should be a pleasure, and Jim Dodge's work is just that." -- Gary Snyder

Rain on the River: New and Selected Poems and Short Prose

Genre Fiction

Contemporary

Rebel inc.

George's wheels: a pure-white mint condition '59 Cadillac Eldorado-very shiny, very stolen. George's mission: the discovery of higher truth and the return of the Caddy to it's rightful owner, the Big Bopper-wherever his spirit has come to rest.

Atlantic Monthly Press

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Fup

Fup

The American Baker: Exquisite Desserts from the Pastry Chef of the Stanford Court

Baking With Jim Dodge

Not Fade Away

Stone Junction

Rain on the River: New and Selected Poems and Short Prose

Stone Junction

Not Fade Away

Not Fade Away