- American Noir fiction, Fiction, Short stories, American fiction
*Los Angeles Stories* is a collection of loosely linked, noir-ish tales that evoke a bygone era in one of America's most iconic cities. In post-World War II Los Angeles, as power was concentrating and fortunes were being made, a do-it-yourself culture of cool cats, outsiders, and oddballs populated the old downtown neighborhoods of Bunker Hill and Chavez Ravine.
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Nostalgic, cool, grave and classical in form.
- contemporarynostalgic
- cooloverwhelming
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- effortlessdemanding
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- Author
- Ry Cooder
- First published
- 2011
- Pages
- 232
- Publisher
- City Lights Books
- Editions
- 1
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780872865198
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