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Leslie Brenner, author of the award-winning American Appetite: The Coming of Age of a Cuisine, received an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from Columbia University. Her book reviews and features have appeared in The New York Times Book Review, Harper's, and other publications. Greetings from the Golden State is her first novel.
"Leslie Brenner is an original with a true comic vision: She has the knack of transforming the most ordinary details of modern life, with hilarious deadpan poignancy. Everything is both recognizable and estranged in this lopsided fairy tale of the pursuit of happiness and culinary satisfaction. The prose is good enough to eat."
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--Phillip Lopate, author of Portrait of My Body
Leslie Brenner, author of the award-winning American Appetite: The Coming of Age of a Cuisine, received an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from Columbia University. Her book reviews and features have appeared in The New York Times Book Review, Harper's, and other publications. Greetings from the Golden State is her first novel.
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- PublisherHenry Holt and Co.
- Publication date2001
- ISBN 10 0805065644
- ISBN 13 9780805065640
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages288
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