I had a lot of jobs in Los Angeles Harbor because our family was poor and my father was dead. My first job was ditchdigging a short time after I graduated from high school. Every night I couldn't sleep from the pain in my back. We were digging an excavation in an empty lot, there wasn't any shade, the sun came straight from a cloudless sky, and I was down in that hole digging with two huskies who dug with a love for it, always laughing and telling jokes, laughing and smoking bitter tobacco.
- ISBN10 1841950491
- ISBN13 9781841950495
- Publish Date 8 August 2000 (first published 1 January 1985)
- Publish Status Unknown
- Out of Print 22 January 2005
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Canongate Books
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 188
- Language English