Collected after Norris’s death, with an introduction by his old editor Will Irwin, these stories date mostly from his apprentice years on the San Francisco Wave. They range from the title tale of Chinatown’s hidden underworld to sketches of the curbstone, a prize-fighter, an Irish parade, a caged lion and a retelling of the Norse hero Grettir.
Revealing early work from the author of McTeague, rich in the street life of 1890s San Francisco. Download the free EPUB.