MiataDrivers - Writing Los Angeles: A Literary Anthology (Library of America)
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Los Angeles has always been a place of paradisal promise and apocalyptic undercurrents. Simone de Beauvoir saw a kaleidoscopic "hall of mirrors," Aldous Huxley a "city of dreadful joy." Jack Kerouac found a "huge desert encampment," David Thomson imagined "Marilyn Monroe, fifty miles long, lying on her side, half-buried on a ridge of crumbling rock." In "Writing Los Angeles," The Library of America presents a glittering panorama in fiction, poetry, essays, journalis...
You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.Writing Los Angeles: A Literary Anthology (Library of America) | From Brand: Library of America. I really enjoyed this book and have already told so many people about it!
