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West of the West: Imagining California Paperback - 1995

by Leonard Michaels (Editor); David Reid (Editor); Raquel Scherr (Editor)

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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.

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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, migrs, 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.

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From San Francisco south, the coastline extends in a north-south direction until Point Conception is reached at latitude 34.30 degrees; then the line swerves abruptly east and the shoreline begins to face almost due south.

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  • Title West of the West: Imagining California
  • Author Leonard Michaels (Editor); David Reid (Editor); Raquel Scherr (Editor)
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition 2nd Printing
  • Pages 348
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of California Press, Berkeley CA
  • Publication date 1995-05-12
  • ISBN 9780520201644 / 0520201647
  • Weight 1.03 lbs (0.47 kg)
  • Dimensions 9 x 6.01 x 0.87 in (22.86 x 15.27 x 2.21 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Western U.S.
    • Cultural Region: West Coast
    • Geographic Orientation: California
  • Category Literature - Classics / Criticism
  • Library of Congress subjects California - Literary collections, California - Civilization
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 94037602
  • Dewey Decimal Code 979.4

About the author

Leonard Michaels is the author of The Men's Club. David Reid is editor of Sex, Death and God in L.A. (California, 1994). Raquel Scherr is coauthor of Face Value: The Politics of Beauty.
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