Graveyard Peaches: A California Memoir
Readers of family saga fiction will recognize De Blasis as the author of the popular "Swan Trilogy." They will enjoy this little collection of her memories, which is not only entertaining but offers insight into her writing. De Blasis grew up in the Fifties on a guest ranch in the Mojave Desert region amidst a wonderful tangle of cousins, ranch hands, movie stars, skunks, scorpions, and a dog named Sausage. She writes lovingly of her tough, Cadillac-driving grandma and compassionately of her "difficult" father. For public libraries, this is an alternative to the spiteful, dirty-linen memoirs that disgust some biography readers.- Maurice Taylor, Brunswick Cty. Lib., Southport, N.C.Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.