The Other California: The Great Central Valley In Life And Letters (Western Literature and Fiction Series)

Haslam, Gerald W.

ISBN 10: 087417225X / ISBN 13: 9780874172256

Edité par University of Nevada Press, 1993

N° de réf. du vendeur 087417225X-3-34798375

Synopsis :

This enlarged edition of The other California, originally published in 1990, contains nineteen essays (six of them new to this collection) on the landscape, literature, and life in the Great Central Valley of California. A vast, flat patchwork of fields and orchards about the size of England, the Valley has become the richest farming region in the history of the world. It also has a rich literary tradition: William Saroyan, Joan Didion, William Everson, Maxine Hong Kingston, Gary Soto, and Richard Rodriguez were all raised in this agricultural heartland.

À propos de l?auteur: Gerald Haslam is a professor emertius of English at Sonoma State University and a contributing writer for West, the Los Angeles Times Sunday Magazine. His book, Straight White Male, won the 2000 Western State Book Award for fiction and was named Book of the Year by Foreword magazine. He lives in Northern California.

Détails bibliographiques

Titre : The Other California: The Great Central ...
Éditeur : University of Nevada Press
Date d'édition : 1993
Reliure : paperback
Etat : Good