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050 00 $aF869.L217$bW35 1996
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100 1 $aWaldie, D. J.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nr95029145
245 10 $aHoly land :$ba suburban memoir /$cD.J. Waldie.
260 $aNew York :$bW.W. Norton,$c1996.
300 $aix, 179 pages :$billustrations ;$c21 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
520 $aThis 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.
520 8 $aAt 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.
520 8 $aThe 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.
600 10 $aWaldie, D. J.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nr95029145
651 0 $aLakewood (Calif.)$xSocial life and customs.
651 0 $aLakewood (Calif.)$vBiography.
650 0 $aSuburban life$zCalifornia$zLakewood.
852 00 $bglx$hF869.L217$iW35 1996