New York. 2002. October 2002. Library of America. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 1931082278. 880 pages. hardcover. Design by Doyle Partners. keywords: Literature Anthology Los Angeles. FROM THE PUBLISHER - In WRITING LOS ANGELES: A LITERARY ANTHOLOGY, The Library of America presents a glittering panorama m fiction, poetry, essays, journalism, and diaries by more than seventy writers. Beginning with Helen Hunt Jackson's romantic portrayal of the city's early days, the anthology covers a century's worth of Los Angeles writing. It brings to life the entrancing surfaces and unsettling contradictions of the City of Angels, from Raymond Chandler's evocation of murderous moods fed by the Santa Ana winds to John Gregory Dunne's affectionate tribute to ‘the deceptive perspectives of the pale subtropical light.' Here are fascinating strata of Los Angeles history, from the 1920s oil boom and the 1940s Zoot Suit Riots to 1950s beat culture and 1980s graffiti art, from flamboyant evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson to surf music genius Brian Wilson. The pleasures and discontents of the Hollywood movie colony are parsed by such observers as Nathanael West, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Christopher Isherwood. Fragile ecosystems, architectural splendors, and social chasms are examined by writers as vanous as M.EK. Fisher, William Faulkner, Bertolt Brecht, Evelyn Waugh, Octavio Paz, Joan Didion, Ray Bradbury, Charles Bukowski, Walter Mosley, Mona ...

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ISBN10: 1931082278, ISBN13: 9781931082273, [publisher: The Library of America, New York] Hardcover Several black & white photographic illustrations. xix, 880 pages. Thick 8vo, pictorial boards, d.w. New York: The Library of America, (2002). A fine copy in a fine dust wrapper. With selections of the written work of Helen Hunt Jackson, Mary Austin, Stewart Edward White, Harris Newmark, James M. Cain, William Faulkner, and others.
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