California Four O'Clock

Martin McClellan

ISBN 10: 0996938702 / ISBN 13: 9780996938709

Published by Letters from the Hellbox Press, 2015

About this Item

Dust jacket in good condition. First edition, first printing. SIGNED by the author. Minor shelf and handling wear, overall a clean solid copy with minimal signs of use. Boards and dust jacket show signs of wear. All pages are intact, binding is sound. Clean and unmarked. Secure packaging for safe delivery.

Seller Inventory # 1873950566

Bibliographic Details

• Title: California Four O'Clock
• Publisher: Letters from the Hellbox Press
• Publication Date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0996938702
• ISBN 13: 9780996938709
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Vicki Nerino
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Good
• Weight: 1.74 pounds
• Signed: signed by author

About this title

Synopsis

It's 1955 and Delores Sarjeant has just found her calling: taking pictures of the gorgeous Sammi Brill. Sammi got her start in modeling working for Delores s dad, the famous pin-up painter Gael Sarjeant. Delores and Sammi have a special rapport, creating some of the most indelible, iconic images of the fifties. Delores knows just the way to bring a flush to Sammi s cheek before turning the camera on her.

Too bad Gael is going to explode if Delores tries to sell any of those photos. And Sammi won't sign a model release. And Delores is living in her parent's house, about to turn thirty, with no way to support herself. She has to choose: stability with the long-term partner she spurned, or independence and heart-racing excitement with Sammi?

California Four O Clock is a stylish, gripping family drama set in mid-century Los Angeles. It's about painting vs. photography, queer identity in a time of great repression, California's car obsession, and that big bang moment of culture being forged by a shutter click. It's about about daughters and fathers, daughters and mothers, lovers and partners, and what it s like to fight the ghost of a self you haven t yet outgrown.

California Four O'Clock is a beautifully designed hardbound book, produced in a limited edition of 500 copies.

It has an illustration at the top of every chapter by the incredbile Vicki Nerino, full-color wraps also illustrated by her, and a lush interior, designed for both a great reading experience, and as an object in of itself.

About the Author

Martin McClellan is a novelist and designer. He's the co-founder of The Seattle Review of Books (seattlereviewofbooks.com), and works as a Senior UX Designer for BreakingNews.com. Find out more about him at martinmcclellan.com, twitter.com/hellbox or on facebook.com/martinmcclellan.