West of the West: Imagining California - Softcover

Michaels, Leonard; Reid, David; Scherr, Raquel

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0520201647 ISBN 13: 9780520201644

Publisher: University of California Press, 1995

Synopsis

Conceived as a novelistic journey through the worlds of California, West of the West offers a vivid and diverse collection of writings on the state where extremes of every sort are dramatically evident in the weather, geography, and people. This richly fascinating collection represents the experience of California both physical and metaphysical, in fiction, poetry, essays, travel writing, confessions, reportage, and social criticism. The authors are native Californians, born-again Californians, exiles, émigrés, critics, and visitors of every kind—Jack Kerouac, Joan Didion, Amy Tan, Simone de Beauvoir, Carey McWilliams, Tom Wolfe, Gore Vidal, Octavio Paz, Jean Baudrillard, Ishmael Reed, Allen Ginsberg—to name just a few.

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Review

"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

Synopsis

Conceived as a novelistic journey through the worlds of California, this book offers a diverse collection of writings on the state where extremes of every sort aare dramatically evident in the weather, geography and people. The collection represents the experience of California, both physical and metaphysical, in fiction, poetry, essays, travel writing, confessions, reportage and social criticisms. The authors are native Californians, born-again Californians, exiles, emigrees, critics and visitors of every kind.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of California Press
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0520201647
• ISBN 13: 9780520201644
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 348