{"product_id":"9781009745710","title":"Los Angeles","description":"\u003cp\u003eNo city occupies as many paradoxical positions in the popular imagination as Los Angeles. It is the new frontier and the end of the trail; it is American Eden and Babylon by the Pacific; it is by turns celebrated and condemned for its diversity; it is the city of perpetual renewal and the city of imminent apocalypse. This collection reveals LA in all its contradictions by documenting a literary tradition as kaleidoscopic and cacophonous as the city itself. The writings explored by Los Angeles: A Literary History record how a dusty cow town morphed into a global metropolis within a matter of decades, and how this unprecedented transformation came to define the experience of modernity. Los Angeles's literature has long gone underappreciated, the city's culture dismissed as flat and frivolous: this volume upturns that narrative, reshaping American literary history by resituating LA as its beating heart.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Michael Docherty","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53254759219518,"sku":"9781009745710","price":5902.88,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4357\/7662\/files\/9781009745710.jpg?v=1775052170","url":"https:\/\/exclusivebooks.co.za\/products\/9781009745710","provider":"Exclusive Books Online","version":"1.0","type":"link"}