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| #73233 in Books | 2005-04-17 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.30 x.60 x5.50l,.42 | File type: PDF | 208 pages||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Weird book|By ken campion|I shared a similar southeast LA county suburban childhood as the author. It was almost as boring as Waldie's experiences. His knowledge of Lakewood"s development was obviously informed by his work for the city. These outlying tracts as they progressed were and are a unique experiment in post WWII lifestyle. As flat and wide as Waldie describes, and mo|.com |Welcome to Lakewood, California, the world's largest suburb and the subject of an oddly mesmerizing account of its creation by D. J. Waldie. Waldie describes how bean fields were drawn up, sectioned off and divided up--leaving tracts for small houses of s
"Infinitely moving and powerful, just dead-on right, and absolutely original." ―Joan Didion
Since 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 ...
You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.Holy Land: A Suburban Memoir | D. J. Waldie.Not only was the story interesting, engaging and relatable, it also teaches lessons.
