| Translating La: A Tour of the Rainbow City Revised Edition Contributor(s): Theroux, Peter (Author), Sene Yee, Henry Anne (Author), Humble, John (Photographer) |
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ISBN: 0393313948 ISBN-13: 9780393313949 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company OUR PRICE: $20.85 Product Type: Paperback Published: November 1995 Annotation: On the cutting edge of modern life sits Los Angeles, a rainbow city of ethnic neighborhoods and social classes. The trick to understanding LA is finding a way to translate across the fault lines between these disparate realities. In Translating LA, Theroux does just that, bringing LA's broad range of social classes together to see what each has to say to the other and to us. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Travel | United States - West - Pacific (ak, Ca, Hi, Or, Wa) - Social Science | Sociology - General |
| Dewey: 917.94 |
| LCCN: 00000000 |
| Physical Information: 0.69" H x 5.56" W x 8.53" (0.77 lbs) 276 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Western U.S. - Geographic Orientation - California |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: At a time when it is America's leading candidate for the star role of Armageddon, Los Angeles still reigns as the destination par excellence and de facto trendsetter for the United States. Despite its curse of ancient and modern-day plagues--what other city can claim the rights to earthquakes and smog as well as riots and gang warfare?--Los Angeles remains the mythical source for the blood flowing through the American heart: the pot of gold that lies on the other coast of the rainbow. In Translating LA, Peter Theroux leads us beyond the rainbow in an affectionate and anecdotal guide to the human centers of Los Angeles. By bringing LA's thousand-and-one ethnic enclaves together with its broad range of social classes, Theroux understands LA by stretching across its fault lines with results that are surprising and illuminating (LA Reader). With its genuine sensitivity towards past, present, and future, Translating LA searches the souls of Angelenos to deliver a remarkable commentary on America's most complex and diverse city. |
Contributor Bio(s): Humble, John: - John Humble is an American photographer known for his photographs of the Los Angeles landscape. |