West of the West: Imagining California : an Anthology - Softcover

Michaels, Leonard; Reid, David; Scherr, Raquel L.

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9780060973643: West of the West: Imagining California : an Anthology

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Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd, 1991

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Gathers selections from fiction and nonfiction about California by M.F.K. Fisher, Tom Wolfe, Octavio Paz, Jack Kerouac, Czeslaw Milosz, Gore Vidal, and Aldous Huxley

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"Writing about the place that still calls itself the Golden State is impossible without reference to the counterpoint between the paradisiacal and the demonic, and this is nothing if not a splendid sample."--Peter Schrag, "The Nation

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Leonard Michaels is the author of The Men's Club. David Reid is editor of Sex, Death and God in L.A. (California, 1994). Raquel Scherr is coauthor of Face Value: The Politics of Beauty.

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PublisherHarperCollins Publishers Ltd
Publication date1991
ISBN 10 0060973641
ISBN 13 9780060973643
BindingPaperback
Number of pages332
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