Francisco -- Alison Mills Newman, Paperback Douglas Lambert from buttery jam-filled rolls to

from buttery jam-filled rolls to crusty seed-studded loaves

to retrieve an old friend and his lost expedition crew

Upon discovering that the man is renowned art dealer Francis Arsenault

and a master of a treacherous game in which the winners live and the losers die

PBS American Experience

Francisco -- Alison Mills Newman, Paperback Douglas Lambert from buttery jam-filled rolls toAlison Mills Newman's innovative, genre bending novel has long been out of print and impossible to find. A "fluently funky mix of standard and nonstandard English," as the poet and scholar Harryette Mullen once put it, Francisco is the first person account of a young actress and musician and her growing disillusionment with her success in Hollywood. Her wildly original and vivid voice chronicles a free spirited life with her filmmaker lover, visiting