Crossing California: A Cultural Topography of a Land of Wonder and Weirdness

Sam Mcmanis

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Langue : anglais

Edité par Linden Publishing Co Inc, 2018

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Sacramento Bee journalist Sam McManis spent five years on the road looking for the real California. He found not one California, but many, all equally weird and wonderful. Crossing California collects McManis' reports from the oddball heart of California and it will make you see the state in an entirely new light. Join McManis on his quest as he: Explores museums dedicated to LA's most hideous deaths, the grimy history of San Francisco's Tenderloin and the world's most complete collection of Pez dispensers, plus the World Famous International Banana Museum. Pursues health, serenity and enlihghtenment through therapies both placid (a serene meditation retreat) and hair-raising (being flogged with birch branches in a Russian sauna). Relives the golden age of 1960s in-flight luxury with a gourmet meal aborad a grounded plane, guesses what he's eating in a pitch-dark sensory deprivation restaurant and finds haute cuisine in a gas station. Discovers the work of California's quirkiest artists, from the Palm Springs Michelangelo of a never-ending found-object phantasmagoria to the San Francisco visionary whose home/museum/total artwork memorializes gouges in the walls and 40-year-old birthday cake. McManis' tart and funny profiles of eccentricity and monomania will both entertain and give you a surprising sympathy for these people on the edge. All told, Crossing California is a trip.…

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Titre
Crossing California: A Cultural Topography of a Land of Wonder and Weirdness
Auteur
Sam Mcmanis
Éditeur
Linden Publishing Co Inc
Année de publication
2018
État de l'article
Very Good
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Paperback
Langue
anglais
ISBN à 10 chiffres
1610353137
ISBN à 13 chiffres
9781610353137

World of Books (was SecondSale)

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