Holy Land: A Suburban Memoir
D.J. Waldie
Aug. 2021 · Tantor Media Inc · Voorgelees deur Rich Miller
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Since its original 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.
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D. J. Waldie is the author of Holy Land, which received the California Book Award for nonfiction in 1996, Where We Are Now: Notes from Los Angeles, and coauthor of Real City: Downtown Los Angles Inside/Out. He is a regular contributor to Los Angeles Magazine, the Los Angeles Times, LA Weekly, and others.
Rich Miller has performed onstage in everything from Shakespeare to Damn Yankees to August: Osage County. He also starred in the indie feature Ocatilla Flat.
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