The Flutter of an Eyelid

Novel set in Southern California in the 1920s, and a lost classic. One modern-day commentator has observed that the book was "killed by neglect". “Here a fine novelist turns the circus of California life inside out in a novel which is brilliant, incisive, distinguished – and perverse. His people are so exotic, so extraordinary, that at first they seem unreal – yet they can be recognized as the natural outgrowth of the abnormal conditions under which they live. A new Messiah walks on the wate...