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City of Quartz

by Mike Davis
Tim Campbell
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No metropolis has been more loved or more hated. To its official boosters, "Los Angeles brings it all together." To detractors, LA is a sunlit mortuary where "you can rot without feeling it." To Mike Davis, the author of this fiercely elegant and wide-ranging work of social history, Los Angeles is both utopia and dystopia, a place where the last Joshua trees are being plowed under to make room for model communities in the desert, where the rich have hired their own police to fend off street gangs, as well as armed Beirut militias.

In City of Quartz, Davis reconstructs LA's shadow history and dissects its ethereal economy. He tells us who has the power and how they hold on to it. He gives us a city of Dickensian extremes, Pynchonesque conspiracies, and a desperation straight out of Nathaniel West—a city in which we may glimpse our own future mirrored with terrifying clarity.
In this new edition, Davis provides a dazzling update on the city's current status.
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Publisher: Tantor Media, Inc Edition: Unabridged

OverDrive Listen audiobook

  • ISBN: 9781977327048
  • File size: 450759 KB
  • Release date: April 3, 2018
  • Duration: 15:39:04

MP3 audiobook

  • ISBN: 9781977327048
  • File size: 450785 KB
  • Release date: April 3, 2018
  • Duration: 15:47:01
  • Number of parts: 17

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OverDrive Listen audiobook
MP3 audiobook

subjects

History Nonfiction

Languages

English

No metropolis has been more loved or more hated. To its official boosters, "Los Angeles brings it all together." To detractors, LA is a sunlit mortuary where "you can rot without feeling it." To Mike Davis, the author of this fiercely elegant and wide-ranging work of social history, Los Angeles is both utopia and dystopia, a place where the last Joshua trees are being plowed under to make room for model communities in the desert, where the rich have hired their own police to fend off street gangs, as well as armed Beirut militias.

In City of Quartz, Davis reconstructs LA's shadow history and dissects its ethereal economy. He tells us who has the power and how they hold on to it. He gives us a city of Dickensian extremes, Pynchonesque conspiracies, and a desperation straight out of Nathaniel West—a city in which we may glimpse our own future mirrored with terrifying clarity.
In this new edition, Davis provides a dazzling update on the city's current status.
Expand title description text
History Nonfiction
  • Details

    Publisher:
    Tantor Media, Inc
    Edition:
    Unabridged

    OverDrive Listen audiobook
    ISBN: 9781977327048
    File size: 450759 KB
    Release date: April 3, 2018
    Duration: 15:39:04

    MP3 audiobook
    ISBN: 9781977327048
    File size: 450785 KB
    Release date: April 3, 2018
    Duration: 15:47:01
    Number of parts: 17

  • Creators
  • Formats
    OverDrive Listen audiobook
    MP3 audiobook
  • Languages
    English