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| #248469 in Books | 2005-04-17 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.30 x.60 x5.50l,.42 | File type: PDF | 208 pages||8 of 8 people found the following review helpful.| A little book, big ideas and a great story|By Phil L|A book subtitled "a suburban memoir" hardly seems to be something that one would choose for a literary adventure. Wrong. Waldie's book is a small, but very genuine, masterpiece. His ability to evoke the confidence and energy of postwar America, the ingenuity -- and irony -- of three Jewish businessmen who could not themselves|.com |Welcome to Lakewood, California, the world's largest suburb and the subject of an oddly mesmerizing account of its creation by D. J. Waldie. Waldie describes how bean fields were drawn up, sectioned off and divided up--leaving tracts for small houses of s
"Infinitely moving and powerful, just dead-on right, and absolutely original." ―Joan Didion
Since its publication in 1996, Holy Land has become an American classic. In "quick, translucent prose" (Michiko Kakutani, New York Times) that is at once lyrical and unsentimental, D. J. Waldie recounts growing up in Lakewood, California, a prototypical post-World War II suburb. Laid out in 316 sections as carefully measured as a grid ...
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