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New York, NY W.W. Norton & Company, 1994. Hardcover First Ed; First Printing indicated. First Ed; First Printing indicated. Very Good in Near Fine DJ: Book shows light wear to extremities; faint dampstain at head of backstrip, but this does not invade the text block except at the rear endpapers; binding shows slight spine lean, but remains perfectly secure; text clean. DJ shows the mildest rubbing; head of backstrip verso shows a small dampstain, but this is not visible from the exterior; price intact. Would make a fine reading copy. NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library. 8vo. 271pp. Hardback with DJ. Let's face it, Los Angeles gets more negative press than any other city in America. Much of this is because it's such an easy target-from police brutality, to earthquakes, to disgustingly ostentatious wealth, to smog, to gang violence, to sprawl, to racial tension, to the film industry-so much of how outsiders define LA is easy to use as fodder for contempt. And when you have a city that covers over 1,000 square miles and includes about 85 incorporated cities, one is left with a megalopolis that's hard to get one's mind around, much less defend. That said, Boston-raised writer and translator Theroux does his best to find the good in LA. After ten years living in the Middle East, he moved to Long Beach in 1985 and set himself up as a translator. In twelve breezy chapters that mix the history of LA's different areas with his own excursions and recent history, Theroux makes the case for LA as a multicultural melting pot that remains as the overwhelming symbol for the American good life in the Third World. Theroux does do a nice job of taking the reader through some of the neighborhoods with the aim of trying to explain how they are different and why. There are no big lessons to be learned, but Theroux's crisp prose and storytelling are a treat, and his open-minded approach to the city make for a nice change.
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New York:: Norton,, 1994.. Hardcover first edition -. Near fine in a like dustjacket (appears unread, but has an inconspicuous slit to front cover of dj.). First printing. A look at the physical side of Los Angeles from the La Brea tarpits to the Northridge earthquake and upscale Santa Monica and Beverly Hills, and at the people who shaped the city - those who find a center in this city 'without a center' and make it their home. 271 pages.
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