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OverviewDavid Reid has gathered together the novelists, journalists, and cultural critics who could best address the myths, define the truths, and interpret the media images of the second largest city in the U.S. They report on the new Latino and Asian populations of South Central and the East Side and the old establishment of the West side; Downtown with its heavily mortgaged office towers held by Canadian and Japanese landlords; shuttered factories and thriving sweatshops; architecture from Irving Gill to Frank O. Gehry; messiahs from Krishnamurti to L. Ron Hubbard; rituals of power in Movieland and yoga and seduction in Beverly Hills. Ranging from acute political commentary to evocative literary impressions, this is a collection that will engage not only those who live in southern California but all those curious about this megalopolis in the desert. Full Product DetailsAuthor: David ReidPublisher: University of California Press Imprint: University of California Press Dimensions: Width: 14.00cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 20.60cm Weight: 0.499kg ISBN: 9780520086401ISBN 10: 0520086406 Pages: 404 Publication Date: 25 April 1994 Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , General , Undergraduate Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Table of ContentsContributors: Alexander Cockburn Mike Davis Carolyn See Eve Babitz Lynell George David Reid Ruben Martinez Thomas S. Hines David Thomson Jeremy LarnerReviewsShould be interesting even when the foreman of history walks in with a verdict. --Michael Tolkin, Los Angeles Times Book Review Author InformationDavid Reid is a writer living in Berkeley who grew up in southern California and was educated at Claremont-McKenna College and the University of California, Berkeley. He is co-editor, with Leonard Michaels and Raquel Scherr, of West of the West: Imagining California (1991). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |