A Californian Odyssey, A narrative about the voyage of discovery of a young Frenchman from a poor background in the California of the eighties, which is a pretext to describe a sweet and sour France from an American standpoint. The predominant themes are also life, death and California. The back drop of these short stories is California's blue sky and they tell the tale of the young author's voyage of discovery in a land of pool blue hues and lush greenery. The book also entralls the reader with the ironic nature of his rapport to French cultural institutions, to his neuroses, to psychoanalysis, art or literature.