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" West of the West : "
Mark Arax.
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BL
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1044389
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b798759
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Arax, Mark,1956-
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West of the West : : dreamers, believers, builders, and killers in the Golden State /\ Mark Arax.
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1st ed.
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New York :: PublicAffairs,, ©2009.
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1 online resource (xiv, 347 pages)
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0786741481
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: 1282487116
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: 9780786741489
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: 9781282487116
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9781586483906
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| Contents
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The last valley -- The agent -- Eyre of the storm -- Legend of Zankou -- The summer of the death of Hilario Guzman -- Highlands of Humboldt -- Last Okie of Lamont -- The great microbe hunt -- Home front -- Confessions of an Armenian moonshiner.
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In the tradition of Joan Didion, Arax combines journalism, essay, and memoir to capture social upheaval as well as the sense of being rooted in a community. This new collection finds a different drama rising out of each confounding landscape: a portrait of one family from Oaxaca, through harrowing border crossings and brutal raisin harvests; right-wing Christians and Jews form a strange pact that tries to silence debate on the War on Terror; Lamont, the inspiration for the town in the Grapes of Wrath, has but one Okie left, who tells Arax his life story as he drives to a funeral to bury one more Dust Bowl migrant; in Humboldt County, the old hippies are battling the new hippies over "pollution pot." Arax pieces together the murder-suicide at the heart of a rotisserie chicken empire, and provides a moving epilogue to the murder of his own father.--From publisher description.
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Arax, Mark,1956-Travel-- California.
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Arax, Mark,1956-
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TRAVEL-- Budget.
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TRAVEL-- Hikes Walks.
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TRAVEL-- Museums, Tours, Points of Interest.
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TRAVEL-- Parks Campgrounds.
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TRAVEL-- Reference.
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TRAVEL-- Road Travel.
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TRAVEL-- Special Interest-- Adventure.
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TRAVEL-- Special Interest-- Ecotourism.
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Travel.
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California, Description and travel.
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California, History.
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California.
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| Dewey Classification
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917.9404/54
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F866.2.A73 2009eb
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