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West of the West :

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0786741481

(Number (ISBN

1282487116

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9780786741489

(Number (ISBN

9781282487116

Erroneous ISBN

9781586483906

Number

b798759

Title Proper

West of the West :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

dreamers, believers, builders, and killers in the Golden State /

First Statement of Responsibility

Mark Arax.

Edition Statement

1st ed.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

New York :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

PublicAffairs,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

©2009.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

1 online resource (xiv, 347 pages)

Text of Note

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.

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Text of Note

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.

Source for Acquisition/Subscription Address

MIL

Source for Acquisition/Subscription Address

OverDrive, Inc.

Stock Number

248711

Stock Number

4174F488-9A34-4A90-9C8A-CD06C3B1B2F6

Title

West of the West.

International Standard Book Number

1586483900

Arax, Mark,1956-Travel-- California.

Arax, Mark,1956-

TRAVEL-- Budget.

TRAVEL-- Hikes & Walks.

TRAVEL-- Museums, Tours, Points of Interest.

TRAVEL-- Parks & Campgrounds.

TRAVEL-- Reference.

TRAVEL-- Road Travel.

TRAVEL-- Special Interest-- Adventure.

TRAVEL-- Special Interest-- Ecotourism.

Travel.

California, Description and travel.

California, History.

California.

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Book number

Arax, Mark,1956-

Date of Transaction

20201207111747.0

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