Thieves' MarketA dark, fast-paced proletarian novel originally published in 1949, Thieves' Market was written out of the author's youthful experiences as a trucker carrying produce to the packing houses of California's Central Valley. Immigrant Nick Garcos, like his father before him, becomes an independent trucker, soon landing in the brutal and crooked underworld of the produce markets of San Francisco, Oakland, Stockton, and Los Angeles. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1949. |
Contents
Section 1 | 1 |
Section 2 | 9 |
Section 3 | 24 |
Section 4 | 32 |
Section 5 | 46 |
Section 6 | 62 |
Section 7 | 74 |
Section 8 | 86 |
Section 15 | 134 |
Section 16 | 148 |
Section 17 | 156 |
Section 18 | 165 |
Section 19 | 171 |
Section 20 | 176 |
Section 21 | 188 |
Section 22 | 197 |
Section 9 | 91 |
Section 10 | 95 |
Section 11 | 107 |
Section 12 | 113 |
Section 13 | 119 |
Section 14 | 127 |
Section 23 | 202 |
Section 24 | 213 |
Section 25 | 215 |
Section 26 | 221 |
Section 27 | 228 |
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