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Blueprint of an Eden
Collins
November 2007
On Sale: October 23, 2007
328 pages
ISBN: 0061346160
EAN: 9780061346163
Hardcover
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Miami Beach, Blueprint of an Eden is the story of an
extraordinary time and place. It is the concurrent stories
of two families placed by destiny in a position to tell
them: the Wolfsons, and the Okas. Miami Beach has long been
public property, well advertised and of easy access. This
book takes it into the realm of private property, thereby
giving it a private reading, an intimate touch, by which
Miami Beach’s strengths and absurdities are equally open to
view. Through letters, a personal narrative is established
that reveals Miami Beach as living experience. The authors maintain the objectivity of anthropologists, who
honor their material even as they dissect them and place it
on the historical record. The book illuminates actual
documents - maps, blueprints, schematics, recipes, sheet
music, photographs- setting only one limitation: the use of
intimate family archives. Most of the people, sights, events
and structures articulated in these pages were part of the
fabric of our families. But unlike anthropologists, the author’s are inseparable
from what is presented. With respect and a great sense of
celebration, we share our insights as to what it was like to
grow up in an atmosphere that time would render mythical. Michele Oka Doner and Mitchell Wolfson Jr.
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