Frantic Transmissions to and from Los Angeles An Accidental Memoir

Name: Frantic Transmissions to and from Los Angeles An Accidental Memoir
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ISBN: 9781555974381

ISBN-10: 1555974384

ISBN-13: 9781555974381

Edition: 2006

Authors: Kate Braverman

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Kate Braverman grew up in Los Angeles in the late 1950s at the time when glitz was just beginning to be manufactured. Her Los Angeles was made up of stucco tenements, welfare, and the marginalized. It wasn' t a destination city, it was the end of the line. "Frantic Transmissions to and from Los Angeles" chronicles the trajectory of Braverman' s Left Coast generation with a voice of singular power. She was an antiwar activist in Berkeley, a punk-rock poet on Sunset Strip, a single mother in the East L.A. barrio, and a woman in recovery at AA meetings in Beverly Hills. By 1990 she was married and settled into a life of writing and teaching. In her forties, Braverman did the unthinkable and…

Book details

List price: $15.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Publication date: 1/24/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 180
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English



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