| West of the West: Imagining California Contributor(s): Michaels, Leonard (Editor), Reid, David (Editor), Scherr, Raquel (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0520201647 ISBN-13: 9780520201644 Publisher: University of California Press OUR PRICE: $31.63 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 1995 Annotation: A vivid collection of stories, essays, remembrances and poems, conceived and organized as a journey through California, by a diverse and splendid array of writers including Jack Kerouac, Amy Tan, M.F.K. Fisher, Tom Wolfe, and Gore Vidal. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | United States - State & Local - General |
| Dewey: 979.4 |
| LCCN: 94037602 |
| Physical Information: 0.87" H x 6.01" W x 9" (1.03 lbs) 348 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Western U.S. - Geographic Orientation - California - Cultural Region - West Coast |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |