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Set in the back streets of San Francisco, "Pick‑up" follows a destitute painter now working as a counterman and a woman escaping domestic abuse as they confront poverty, alcoholism, and violence. Their interaction reveals both grim realities—rape, racism, suicide—and moments of tenderness, illustrating their search for belonging amid a society that offers few chances for outcasts and misfits.
First publish date: 1987
Genre: General Fiction/General Fiction
Authors: Charles Ray Willeford
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