Holy Land (eBook)

A Suburban Memoir

D. J. Waldie (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2005
208 Seiten
W. W. Norton & Company (Verlag)
978-0-393-07856-5 (ISBN)

Infos

"e;Infinitely moving and powerful, just dead-on right, and absolutely original."e; Joan DidionSince its publication in 1996, Holy Land has become an American classic. In "e;quick, translucent prose"e; (Michiko Kakutani, New York Times) that is at once lyrical and unsentimental, D. J. Waldie recounts growing up in Lakewood, California, a prototypical post-World War II suburb. Laid out in 316 sections as carefully measured as a grid of tract houses, Holy Land is by turns touching, eerie, funny, and encyclopedic in its handling of what was gained and lost when thousands of blue-collar families were thrown together in the suburbs of the 1950s. An intensely realized and wholly original memoir about the way in which a place can shape a life, Holy Land is ultimately about the resonance of choiceshow wide a street should be, what to name a parkand the hopes that are realized in the habits of everyday life.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 22.4.2013
• Zusatzinfo: 20 illustrations
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Schlagworte: CA • california book award winner • City • LA • Lakewood • Long Beach • Los Angeles • Southern California • Suburbanization • Suburbia
• ISBN-10: 0-393-07856-6 / 0393078566
• ISBN-13: 978-0-393-07856-5 / 9780393078565