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Arax, Mark : West of The West: Dreamers, Believers, B FREE Shipping, Save £s
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Good
- Seller notes
- Book Title
- West of The West: Dreamers, Believers, B
- ISBN
- 9781586483906
- Publication Year
- 2009
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Publication Name
- At the Edge of West: Dispatches from a Native Son
- Item Height
- 236 mm
- Publisher
- Publicaffairs,U.S.
- Subject
- History
- Item Width
- 156 mm
- Number of Pages
- 368 Pages
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Teddy Roosevelt once exclaimed, When I am in California, I am not in the West. I am west of the West, and in this book, Mark Arax spends four years travelling up and down the Golden State to explore its singular place in the world. This is California beyond the clichs. This is California as only a native son, deep in the dust, could draw it. Compelling, lyrical, and ominous, his new collection finds a different drama rising out of each confounding landscape. The Summer of the Death of Hilario Guzman has been praised as a stunningly intimate portrait of one immigrant family from Oaxaca, through harrowing border crossings and brutal raisin harvests. Down the road in the Home Front, right-wing Christians and Jews form a strange pact that tries to silence debate on the War on Terror, and a conflicted father loses not one but two sons in Iraq. The Last Okie in Lamont, the inspiration for the town in the Grapes of Wrath, has but one Okie left, who tells Arax his life story as he drives to a funeral to bury one more Dust Bowl migrant. The Highlands of Humboldt is a journey to marijuana growing capital of the U. S. , where the old hippies are battling the new hippies over pollution pot and the local bank collects a mountain of cash each day, much of it redolent of cannabis. Arax pieces together the murder-suicide at the heart of a rotisserie chicken empire in The Legend of Zankou, a story included in the Best American Crime Reporting 2009. And, in the end, he provides a moving epilogue to the murder of his own father, a crime in the California heartland finally solved after thirty years. In the finest tradition of Joan Didion, Arax combines journalism, essay, and memoir to capture social upheaval as well as the sense of being rooted in a community. Piece by piece, the stories become a whole, a stunning panorama of California, and America, in a new century.
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Publicaffairs,U.S.
ISBN-13
9781586483906
eBay Product ID (ePID)
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Product Key Features
Publication Year
2009
Subject
History
Number of Pages
368 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
At the Edge of West: Dispatches from a Native Son
Type
Textbook
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
236 mm
Item Width
156 mm
Additional Product Features
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States
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