The Resource West of the West : dreamers, believers, builders, and killers in the Golden State, Mark Arax
West of the West : dreamers, believers, builders, and killers in the Golden State, Mark Arax
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- Summary
- In the tradition of Joan Didion, Arax combines journalism, essay, and memoir to capture social upheaval as well as the sense of being rooted in a community. This new collection finds a different drama rising out of each confounding landscape: a portrait of one family from Oaxaca, through harrowing border crossings and brutal raisin harvests; right-wing Christians and Jews form a strange pact that tries to silence debate on the War on Terror; Lamont, the inspiration for the town in the Grapes of Wrath, has but one Okie left, who tells Arax his life story as he drives to a funeral to bury one more Dust Bowl migrant; in Humboldt County, the old hippies are battling the new hippies over "pollution pot." Arax pieces together the murder-suicide at the heart of a rotisserie chicken empire, and provides a moving epilogue to the murder of his own father.--From publisher description
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- xiv, 347 pages
- Contents
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- The last valley
- The agent
- Eyre of the storm
- Legend of Zankou
- The summer of the death of Hilario Guzman
- Highlands of Humboldt
- Last Okie of Lamont
- The great microbe hunt
- Home front
- Confessions of an Armenian moonshiner
- Isbn
- 9781586483906
- Label
- West of the West : dreamers, believers, builders, and killers in the Golden State
- Title
- West of the West
- Title remainder
- dreamers, believers, builders, and killers in the Golden State
- Statement of responsibility
- Mark Arax
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- In the tradition of Joan Didion, Arax combines journalism, essay, and memoir to capture social upheaval as well as the sense of being rooted in a community. This new collection finds a different drama rising out of each confounding landscape: a portrait of one family from Oaxaca, through harrowing border crossings and brutal raisin harvests; right-wing Christians and Jews form a strange pact that tries to silence debate on the War on Terror; Lamont, the inspiration for the town in the Grapes of Wrath, has but one Okie left, who tells Arax his life story as he drives to a funeral to bury one more Dust Bowl migrant; in Humboldt County, the old hippies are battling the new hippies over "pollution pot." Arax pieces together the murder-suicide at the heart of a rotisserie chicken empire, and provides a moving epilogue to the murder of his own father.--From publisher description
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- 317573
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1956-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Arax, Mark
- Dewey number
- 917.9404/54
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- F866.2
- LC item number
- .A73 2009
- Literary form
- non fiction
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- Arax, Mark
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- California
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- dreamers, believers, builders, and killers in the Golden State
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- West of the West : dreamers, believers, builders, and killers in the Golden State, Mark Arax
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- The last valley -- The agent -- Eyre of the storm -- Legend of Zankou -- The summer of the death of Hilario Guzman -- Highlands of Humboldt -- Last Okie of Lamont -- The great microbe hunt -- Home front -- Confessions of an Armenian moonshiner
- Control code
- 739375
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- xiv, 347 pages
- Isbn
- 9781586483906
- Isbn Type
- (hardcover : alk. paper)
- Lccn
- 2009014420
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
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- n
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- (Sirsi) i9781586483906
- (OCoLC)191926338
- Label
- West of the West : dreamers, believers, builders, and killers in the Golden State, Mark Arax
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- Contents
- The last valley -- The agent -- Eyre of the storm -- Legend of Zankou -- The summer of the death of Hilario Guzman -- Highlands of Humboldt -- Last Okie of Lamont -- The great microbe hunt -- Home front -- Confessions of an Armenian moonshiner
- Control code
- 739375
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- xiv, 347 pages
- Isbn
- 9781586483906
- Isbn Type
- (hardcover : alk. paper)
- Lccn
- 2009014420
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
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- (Sirsi) i9781586483906
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