Depth Takes a Holiday - Softcover

Loh, Sandra Tsing

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1573226114 ISBN 13: 9781573226110

Publisher: Riverhead Trade, 1997

Synopsis

A collection of amusing tales, anecdotes, observations, and experiences by a Buzz magazine columnist captures the unique class structure, style, culture, demographics, and mannerisms of modern-day Los Angeles. Reprint.

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Review:

A smart, sassy woman who's not afraid to show it, Sandra Tsing Loh chronicles California's San Fernando Valley, the "other" Los Angeles, for Buzz magazine. In this collection of her essays, she pays homage to "the futon dwellers," skillfully dissects bohemian life in L.A., and makes some outrageously incisive comments about dating. Her essays are very funny, and, best of all, Loh is a diligent reporter. She gives you the facts, screwy as they may be, as she details lovingly the Los Angeles that she admits is "America's cultural scapegoat."

From Publishers Weekly:

"Depth," Tsing Loh proposes, sometimes "deserves a holiday." In this collection of pieces from her "Valley" column for L.A.'s Buzz magazine, she provides one of sorts, weighing in with tongue-in-cheek observations on such ponderous subjects as the Ikea-ization of 20-somethings' taste in home decor, the semiotics of earrings and the pleasures of Baywatch. But for all their frothy charm, her musings on the plight of an overeducated, underemployed generation that measures success in terms of the ability to afford health insurance are often as insightful as they are witty. Even as she gently mocks the pretensions and delusions of her fellow young Angelenos, Tsing Loh succeeds in making Generation X angst far more appealing and sympathetic than usual. Despite L.A.'s role as "the nation's cultural scapegoat," even the "smug, incestuous, cultural imperialist hipsters of Manhattan" will doubtless appreciate-and recognize something of their own experience in-Tsing Loh's sardonic but never mean-spirited take on modern urban life.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Riverhead Trade
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 1573226114
• ISBN 13: 9781573226110
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 240