[PDF.38da] Imagining Los Angeles: A City in Fiction

Imagining Los Angeles: A City in Fiction

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 | #246622 in Books |  University of New Mexico Press |  2000-08 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  .92 x5.73 x9.24l, | File type: PDF | 294 pages

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||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| High School Teacher's POV|By J. Maier|I am teaching a high school senior English elective on the evolution of the L.A. hard-boiled detective novel and this book has been a wonderful resource to enhance my understanding of the place of this genre in the world of L.A. fiction.|8 of 9 people found the following review helpful.| A terrific overview of LA| |"...a graceful and judicious exploration of American literature in one of its more exotic locales and challenging variations." -- Dr. Kevin Starr, State Librarian of California

"...so full of punch and energy, so mercifully free of the impene

The promotional literature that lured sun-starved mid-westerners to Southern California in the 1880s hyped the region as the New Eden. But the novelists who created our vision of Los Angeles soon began to see it as Dystopia rather than Utopia, a corrupt, unreal city foreshadowing and reflecting all that is wrong with America. Now in the first literary history of Los Angeles in more than fifty years, David Fine traces the history of the place through the work of the autho...

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