Holy Land: A Suburban Memoir Revised Edition Contributor(s): Waldie, D. J. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0393327280 ISBN-13: 9780393327281 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company OUR PRICE: $13.46 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2005 Annotation: Waldie's account of growing up in Lakewood, California, is by turns touching, eerie, funny, and encyclopedic in its handling of what was gained and lost when thousands of blue-collar families were thrown together in the suburbs of the 1950s. |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Historical - Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs |
Dewey: B |
LCCN: 2005283608 |
Physical Information: 0.53" H x 5.58" W x 8.24" (0.42 lbs) 208 pages |
Themes: - Chronological Period - 1950's - Cultural Region - Western U.S. - Cultural Region - West Coast - Geographic Orientation - California |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Since its publication in 1996, Holy Land has become an American classic. In quick, translucent prose (Michiko Kakutani, New York Times) that is at once lyrical and unsentimental, D. J. Waldie recounts growing up in Lakewood, California, a prototypical post-World War II suburb. Laid out in 316 sections as carefully measured as a grid of tract houses, Holy Land is by turns touching, eerie, funny, and encyclopedic in its handling of what was gained and lost when thousands of blue-collar families were thrown together in the suburbs of the 1950s. An intensely realized and wholly original memoir about the way in which a place can shape a life, Holy Land is ultimately about the resonance of choices--how wide a street should be, what to name a park--and the hopes that are realized in the habits of everyday life. |
Contributor Bio(s): Waldie, D. J.: - D. J. Waldie still lives in the tract house he writes about. He has received a Whiting Writers Award and a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, among other honors. |