L.A. Exile: A Guide to Los Angeles Writing 1932-1998

Calbi, Evan

ISBN 10: 1568860684 / ISBN 13: 9781568860688

Published by Marsilio Pub, 1999

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: L.A. Exile: A Guide to Los Angeles Writing 1932-1998
• Publisher: Marsilio Pub
• Publication Date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1568860684
• ISBN 13: 9781568860688
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: very_good

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Synopsis

Fiction. Poetry. There are cities writers have sought as inspiration; Paris in the '20s, or New York or San Francisco in the '40s and '50s. Then there is Los Angeles, a place poets and writers have avoided or at least never expected to end up in. Once arrived, many found themselves remarkably productive, intrigued with the city and a life that often struggles to be heroically elsewhere. L.A. EXILE is a guide to the literature, the writers and the physical spaces that have made for what composer Igor Stravinsky called "splendid isolation". Ranging from the early-century writings of F. Scott Fitzgerald and Upton Sinclair to contemporary authors such as Gore Vidal and Frank Chin, L.A. EXILE offers a grand tour of America's great "lost city".