Overview
Conceived as a novelistic journey through the worlds of California, West of the West offers a vivid and diverse collection of writings on the state where extremes of every sort are dramatically evident in the weather, geography, and people. This richly fascinating collection represents the experience of California both physical and metaphysical, in fiction, poetry, essays, travel writing, confessions, reportage, and social criticism. The authors are native Californians, born-again Californians, exiles, émigrés, critics, and visitors of every kind-Jack Kerouac, Joan Didion, Amy Tan, Simone de Beauvoir, Carey McWilliams, Tom Wolfe, Gore Vidal, Octavio Paz, Jean Baudrillard, Ishmael Reed, Allen Ginsberg-to name just a few.
- | Author: Leonard Michaels
- | Publisher: University of California Press
- | Publication Date: May 12, 1995
- | Number of Pages: 348 pages
- | Binding: Paperback or Softback
- | ISBN-10: 0520201647
- | ISBN-13: 9780520201644
