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Cool Gray City of Love
Gary Kamiya
49 Views of San Francisco
Bloomsbury USA
August 2013
On Sale: August 6, 2013
400 pages
ISBN: 1608199606
EAN: 9781608199600
Kindle: B00D78R550
Hardcover / e-Book
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Non-Fiction
Cool, Gray City of Love brings together an exuberant
combination of personal insight, deeply researched history,
in-depth reporting, and lyrical prose to create an
unparalleled portrait of San Francisco. Each of its 49
chapters explores a specific site or intersection in the
city, from the mighty Golden Gate Bridge to the raunchy
Tenderloin to the soaring sea cliffs at Land's End. This unique approach captures the exhilarating experience of
walking through San Francisco's sublime terrain, while at
the same time tying that experience to a history as
rollicking and unpredictable as the city herself. From her
absurd beginnings as the most distant and moth-eaten outpost
of the world's most extensive empire, to her instantaneous
fame during the Gold Rush, from her apocalyptic destruction
by earthquake and fire to her perennial embrace of rebels,
dreamers, hedonists and misfits of all stripes, the City by
the Bay has always followed a trajectory as wildly
independent as the untrammeled natural forces that created her. This ambitious, eclectic, and beautifully written book draws
on everything from on-the-ground reporting to obscure
academic papers to the author's 40-year life in San
Francisco to create a rich and insightful portrait of a
magical corner of the world. Complete with hand-drawn maps
ofthe 49locations, this handsome package will sit
comfortably on the short shelf of enduring books about
places, alongside E. B. White's Here is New York, Jose
Saramago's Journey to Portugal, or Alfred Kazin's A Walker
in the City.
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