The adventures of Charlie Bates

by James D. Houston

In these seven satiric stories, Charlie Bates struggles with car washes, parking towers, freeways, drive-in burger bars and baroque camper rigs, emerging as a kind of California Everyman.

123 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 1973

About the author

James Houston is the author of 8 novels and several nonfiction books. His work includes Snow Mountain Passage and Farewell to Manzanar.

Reviews

[Tamahome · Rating 4 out of 5]

As a youth, I remember it being a cool short story where a guy drives through a parking deck, unable to find a spot, and then ends up on the roof in some wierd deathrace.