WEST OF THE WEST: Imagining California

Michaels, Leonard; Reid, David; Scherr, Raquel (editors)

ISBN 10: 0865474036 / ISBN 13: 9780865474031

Published by North Point Press, San Francisco, CA, 1989

About this Item

A collection of essays on the Land of Gold in all its glory and infamy by America's most noted writers ranging from Tom Wolfe on gangs, to Jack Kerouac on a long-forgotten automobile lying at the base of Big Sur .California has about it a genius of place that inspires and mystifies, but deftly eludes definition. Each essay and excerpt--by contributors as diverse asTom Wolfe, Joan Didion, Gore Vidal, Octavio Paz, Umberto Eco, Jack Kerouac, Maya Angelou, Henry Miller, John Steinbeck, Robinson Jeffers, et al.-- in this collection of fact and fiction succeeds in capturing a vision of the Golden State. Fine,first edition, first printing in green cloth, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket.{Not remainder-marked or price-clipped} NFBS22/NF15.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: WEST OF THE WEST: Imagining California
• Publisher: North Point Press, San Francisco, CA
• Publication Date: 1989
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0865474036
• ISBN 13: 9780865474031
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Nonfiction

About this title

Synopsis

California has about it a genius of place that inspires and mystifies, but deftly eludes definition. Each essay and excerpt in this collection of fact and fiction succeeds in capturing a vision of the Golden State.

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