California Characters, Charles Hillinger
California Characters, Charles Hillinger
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California Characters
An Array Of Amazing People

Author: Charles Hillinger

Narrator: Dennis McKee

Unabridged: 10 hr 40 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/22/2005


Synopsis

California Characters is a collection of stories about unusual individuals profiled by Hillinger. Characters like Down the Road Dugan, Sweetwater Clyde, Dr. Tinkerpaw, Spaceship Ruthie, and Warmly Ormly will delight, amuse, and perhaps inspire the listener with their tales and reasons why theyve chosen to live the lives they do.

About Charles Hillinger

Charles Hillinger, a graduate of UCLA, roamed California, America, and the world for forty-five years writing some six thousand human-interest stories for the Los Angeles Times. His features and column were syndicated in more than six hundred newspapers. He is one of the creators of the television show Real People. He and his wife live in Los Angeles.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Sarah on July 09, 2022

This book was fascinating and enjoyable. Charles Hillinger was a journalist for the Los Angeles Times for almost 50 years, and wrote hundreds of articles about some of California’s unique characters during that time. With the span of time covered, there were elderly gold miners, eccentric recluses,......more

Goodreads review by Dani on August 04, 2024

Wonderfully written. Did not like the choice by the reader to use accents.......more

Goodreads review by Nicole on June 21, 2012

For everyone who thinks the know all abut California - you don't. This book contains interviews with loners, miners, a cactus groomer and people with unusual jobs. Or no jobs. California is big enough to absorb people from other places who want to 'do their own thing'.......more