![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Some deal with the author's experiences, both in first and third person narration. Waldie breaks the text into 316 sections, some no longer than a sentence or two. ![]() Lakewood was the first of its kind on the west coast and is regarded as a parallel to Levittown, New York, the original, post-World War II, tract-house development in America. Norton) is his account of growing up in the 1950s in Lakewood, then California's largest planned suburb. Waldie's Holy Land: A Suburban Memoir (19, W. is one of the writers responsible for developing a Southern California aesthetic in which what's most vivid about the place is everything we might take for granted somewhere else," said David Ulin, book critic of the Los Angeles Times in April 2014. Waldie," noted Susan Brenneman, Los Angeles Times deputy op-ed editor, in May 2014. Norton), Waldie also is regarded as a thoughtful observer of Los Angeles' history, politics, and culture. Waldie) is an American essayist, memoirist, translator, and editor who also is the former Deputy City Manager of Lakewood, California.Īlthough best known for Holy Land: A Suburban Memoir (19, W. Writer, translator, city administrator (ret.)Ĭalifornia State University, Long Beach University of California, Irvineĭ. ![]()
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