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Imagining Los Angeles
The literary image of Los Angeles has evolved since the 1880s from promotional literature that hyped the region as a New Eden to contemporary visions of the city as a perplexing, sometimes corrupt, even apocalyptic place that reflects all that is wrong with America. In Imagining Los Angeles, the first literary history of the city in more than fifty years, critic David Fine traces the history and mood of the place through the work of writers as diverse as Helen Hunt Jackson, Mary Austin, Norman Mailer, Raymond Chandler, Joan Didion, Carolyn See, and many others. His lively and engaging text focuses on the way these writers saw Los Angeles and used the image of the city as an element in their work, and on how that image has changed as the city itself became ever larger, more complex, and more socially and ethnically diverse. This is essential reading for anyone interested in the literature and changing image of Southern California.
John Fante
Over the span of a half-century - from the early 1930s to the early 1980s - the Italian-American Fante (1909-1983) wrote short stories and novels that drew on his own life from his Catholic childhood in Colorado through his down-and-out days in Los Angeles, to his adventures as a screenwriter in Hollywood. He writes about all these things with gusto, humor, directness, and an honesty tinged with the irony of a true modernist."--BOOK JACKET.
San Francisco in Fiction
"In the beginning there was the bay, the land, the forty-three hills, the coastline down to Monterey, the strip of mountains, the quiet valley behind, the vast ocean, the hidden faults." And with the landscape came the stories, as Paul Skenazy and David Fine note in their introduction to this new anthology of essays. San Francisco is as much a place in the mind as on the map; if the terrain set the stage for the stories, the stories have helped remake our perceptions of the space. These twelve essays explore the relationship between place and prose--between San Francisco the city and San Francisco the territory of fiction. From the Gold Rush times of Mark Twain and Bret Harte, through the Pr...
Understanding Clarity
This book will give you insights that help you process a multitude of issues you might experience through your life. The hope is that at the end of this book you will understand more about yourself and why you do what you do. You will have Clarity. Clarity will help you think before you react, change what may be dysfunctional, repetitive patterns, take responsibility for your actions and have more loving, productive relationships with others. You will accept and love yourself and have more confidence in how you help your children grow into confident, responsible and empathetic adults. Each insight will include a question to help you think about what you are reading and how it applies to you. The questions are necessary as these are questions you might not ask yourself. Questions only a therapist would ask to get to the real truth. This book is an easy read with insights you will be able to use in every day life.Every insight has been experienced by the author who is an established Registered Psychotherapist and Life Coach. He brings you into his world of personal struggles and how he processes and works through the obstacles that confront him through life.
Aggie Boyle and the Lost Beauty
Aggie Boyle, a soon-to-be teenager, is going through the misery of being an unpopular and not-so-attractive girl in middle school. Her mother ignores her, and all she has left of her dead father is a ring with an unusual symbol on it. After another miserable day of school, Aggie falls asleep, feeling completely lost and alone. She awakens the next morning to an unexpected transformation and begins an adventure that leads her to a colonial village with surprising inhabitants. With the help of new friends, she must discover her own magical origins and rely on her inner strength and courage to find a way to save an entire town from evil before it is destroyed by magic. This is the first book in the Aggie Boyle series.
Bigger, Faster, Fresher, Looser Abstract Painting Workbook
Have you ever wondered how to Loosen-Up your painting style? Paint Fresher paintings? Be more Spontaneous? Be more Expressive? If the answer to any of these questions is yes, then this book is for you! Here is what is included:Inspiration Motivation, InformationLearn to Loosen-Up and Let GoPaint from the HeartHow to Design a Better Composition using Shape, Value, Color, Edges and Center of InterestProfessional Practice TopicsResources for the Artist
Imagining Los Angeles
"The promotional literature that lured sun-starved Midwesterners to Southern California in the 1880s hyped the region as the New Eden. But the novelists who created our vision of Los Angeles soon began to see it as Dystopia rather than Utopia, a corrupt, unreal city foreshadowing and reflecting all that is wrong with America. David Fine traces the history of the place through the work of the authors who have defined it in our imaginations." --Book Jacket.
Ecology and Natural History (Collins New Naturalist Library)
Ecology is the science of ecosystems, of habitats, of our world and its future. In the latest New Naturalist, ecologist David M. Wilkinson explains key ideas of this crucial branch of science, using Britain’s ecosystems to illustrate each point.
Los Angeles in Fiction
Essays that appeal to fans of the mystery genre--and those just plain fascinated by Los Angeles.
