Whether in history books or on the silver screen, the Los Angeles landscape has long served as an ever-shifting backdrop against which countless American anxieties and aspirations play out. The New York-based novelist and short-story writer Homes checks readers into the famed hotel Chateau Marmont and uses life at this iconic landmark as a multifaceted prism through which she views and experiences Los Angeles culture, past and present.
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Whether in history books or on the silver screen, the Los Angeles landscape has long served as an ever-shifting backdrop against which countless American anxieties and aspirations play out. The New York-based novelist and short-story writer Homes checks readers into the famed hotel Chateau Marmont and uses life at this iconic landmark as a multifaceted prism through which she views and experiences Los Angeles culture, past and present.
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New. Hardcover New Ships From Canada New in new dust jacket Sewn binding Cloth over boards 192 p National Geographic Directions Audience: General/trade From Our Editors The City of Angels possibly the most surreal place in the United States is a unique amalgam of past and present, tradition and revolution, dreamscape and reality Whether in history books or on the silver screen, the Los Angeles landscape has long served as an ever-shifting backdrop against which countless American anxieties and aspirations play out In Los Angeles, the New York-based novelist and short-story writer A M Homes checks us into the famed hotel Chateau Marmont and uses life at this iconic landmark as a multifaceted prism through which she views and experiences Los Angeles culture, past and present Built in the 1920s, the Chateau Marmont is where the famous and infamous have always come to stay some for a few days, others for months at a time and sometimes, like John Belushi, to die It is a mythological mecca, the fo.
Every book I've read by A.M. Homes has been done in one but no more than three "sittings", usually can't put it down, can't read it fast enough but don't want it to end. Not so with this book, started off interesting and good but haven't even finished it, pick it up when I notice it lying on my nightstand. Not up to my A. M. Homes standard!
