Holy land: a suburban memoir

by Waldie, D. J.

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Title Statements

Full title :Holy land : a suburban memoir / D.J. Waldie.

Summary

This is an exquisitely realized and wholly original memoir of growing up in blue-collar 1950s Lakewood, California, the quintessential post-World War II American suburb and the prototype for the countless tract developments that would follow. At once a portrait of the author's coming of age, as well as a history of Lakewood, Holy Land is about the way places shape lives. It's about the difficulties of ordinariness - both good and bad. It's a collection of intensely observed and felt episodes in the making of a city that parallel the making of a life. It's about the resonance of mundane choices - how wide a street should be, how to lease stores in a shopping mall, what to name a park. The author captures, in snapshot-like precise prose, the familiar moments of a suburban childhood - playing Monopoly in a back bedroom, an afternoon at the public swimming pool, the intimacy among brothers.

It offers us a portrait of suburbia, not unlike the suburbia of all our childhoods.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:1996.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):W.W. Norton
Place of Publication:New York
Language:eng
Publication Date:1996.

The Physical Object

Description:ix, 179 pages : : illustrations ; : 21 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:0393039579, 9780393039573
oclc:ocm33164267
LC Classification:F869.L217
Dewey Decimal:B

Subjects

Biographies Biography California -- Lakewood Lakewood (Calif.) -- Biography Lakewood (Calif.) -- Social life and cu… Manners and customs Suburban life Suburban life -- California Waldie, D. J.