Hilton Obenzinger

  CANNIBAL ELIOT AND THE LOST HISTORIES OF SAN FRANCISCO
       
 

CANNIBAL ELIOT AND THE LOST HISTORIES OF SAN FRANCISCO
Fiction
256 pages
Paper, $12.95
1-56279-047-1
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  “Hilton Obenzinger is an American original. His lost histories are acts of legerdemain and cunning … mixing truth and imagination in ways rarely seen before. Cannibal Eliot is a wonderful, profoundly entertaining book.”
— Paul Auster

“Obenzinger … offers stories from San Francisco's colorful past, superbly twisting fact and fancy in a delightful, memorable concoction.… Vivid, poignantly reconstructed moments in history — all rendered with wit and a keen eye for the quirks in human nature.”
Kirkus Reviews

“Marvelously authentic.… A loving but honest tribute to a city that even now, in its tamer middle age, continues to capture the imagination of the world.”
San Francisco Chronicle

See also RUNNING THROUGH FIRE, by Zosia Goldberg as told to Hilton Obenzinger, with an introduction by Paul Auster.

       
 

  HILTON OBENZINGER is the author of New York on Fire, a history of the fires of New York in verse; This Passover or the Next I Will Never Be in Jerusalem, winner of the Before Columbus American Book Award; The Day of the Exquisite Poet Is Kaput; and Bright Lights! Big City! He is featured in Five on the Western Edge. He has taught on the Hoopa Valley Indian Reservation, and is currently Associate Director of Undergraduate Research Programs for Honors Writing and a lecturer in English at Stanford University. Come visit his website: www.obenzinger.com.