East Bay Grease

East Bay Grease Eric Miles Williamsons 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 Hells 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. Praise for EAST BAY GREASE: Williamsons writing becomes transcendent. His prose cuts loose in torrid rhythms that evoke the peril and exuberance of jazz. --The New York Times Book Review A confident debut an arresting often harrowing read. --The London Times