Unknown California - Hardcover

As 'Unknown California' demonstrates, the conflict, divergence, and juxtaposition of California's cultures have given birth to writing of resonant richness--some of the best America has known. 'Unknown California' offers Samuel Langhorne Clemens "roughing it" in San Francisco, Norman Mailer exposing the corruption at the heart of the film industry, and John Steinbeck reporting on the miseries of the migrant camps. Thomas Pynchon measures the aftershocks of the Watts riots, Evelyn Waugh explores Hollywood's bizarre burial practice, and Henry Miller evokes the majesty of Big Sur Equally revealing are the voices of writers yet to be discovered.