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This is an exquisitely realized and wholly original memoir of growing up in blue-collar 1950s Lakewood, California, the quintessential post-World War II American suburb and the prototype for the countless tract developments that would follow.
At once a portrait of the author's coming of age, as well as a history of Lakewood, Holy Land is about the way places shape lives. It's about the difficulties of ordinariness - both good and bad. It's a collection of intensely observed and felt episodes in the making of a city that parallel the making of a life. It's about the resonance of mundane choices - how wide a street should be, how to lease stores in a shopping mall, what to name a park.
The author captures, in snapshot-like precise prose, the familiar moments of a suburban childhood - playing Monopoly in a back bedroom, an afternoon at the public swimming pool, the intimacy among brothers. It offers us a portrait of suburbia, not unlike the suburbia of all our childhoods.
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Holy Land: A Suburban Memoir
2005, Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W.
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0393078566 9780393078565
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Holy land: a suburban memoir
1997, Buzz Book for St. Martin's Press
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0312168640 9780312168643
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"That evening he thought he was becoming his habits, or even morehe thought he was becoming the grid he knew."
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