![]() I have never read anything quite like it." Witold Rybczynski "An astonishing book, unsentimental, baleful, yet oddly affecting. Let Holy Land be your bible." Los Angeles Times 'Welcome to the first church of the suburbs. "Infinitely moving and powerful, just dead-on right, and absolutely original." Joan Didion Lyrical, compassionate, and profound, Holy Land is an uncompromising, passionate statement of the hard-won values of American suburban places. 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. He lives in the house his parents bought in Lakewood, California, where he is a city official. Waldie was named on of the "100 coolest people in L.A." by Buzz magazine and was a recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. Lyrical, compassionate statement of the hard-won values of American suburban places.ĭ. 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. ![]()
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