Holy Land: A Suburban Memoir
By D. J. Waldie.
Description
"Infinitely moving and powerful, just dead-on right, and absolutely original." ―Joan DidionSince 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-co...
ISBN(s)
0393327280, 9780393327281
