| In the Heart of the Valley of Love Contributor(s): Kadohata, Cynthia (Author) |
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ISBN: 0520207289 ISBN-13: 9780520207288 Publisher: University of California Press OUR PRICE: $19.75 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 1997 Annotation: Cynthia Kadohata explores human relationships in a Los Angeles of the future, where rich and poor are deeply polarized and where water, food, and gas, not to mention education, cannot be taken for granted. There is an intimate, understated, even gentle quality to Kadohata's writing--this is not an apocalyptic dystopia--that makes it difficult to shrug off the version of the future embodied in her book. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Fantasy - General - Fiction | Science Fiction - Apocalyptic & Post-apocalyptic |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 96034569 |
| Series: California Fiction |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.46" W x 8.52" (0.71 lbs) 224 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: "An apocalyptic picture of America on the brink of civil disorder and social collapse. . . . The writing is lucid and finely honed, often lyrical and occasionally magical."--Michiko Kakutani, New York Times Cynthia Kadohata explores human relationships in a Los Angeles of the future, where rich and poor are deeply polarized and where water, food, and gas, not to mention education, cannot be taken for granted. There is an intimate, understated, even gentle quality to Kadohata's writing--this is not an apocalyptic dystopia--that makes it difficult to shrug off the version of the future embodied in her book. |