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Author : Ivy Pochoda
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins
Release Date : 2017-11-07
Wonder Valley written by Ivy Pochoda and has been published by HarperCollins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-11-07 with Fiction categories.
NPR Best Book of 2017 Los Angeles Times Best Fiction Pick Refinery29 Best Book of the Year BOLO Books Top Read of 2017 “Destined to be a classic L.A. novel.”—Michael Connelly When a teen runs away from his father’s mysterious commune, he sets in motion a domino effect that will connect six characters desperate for hope and love, set across the sun-bleached canvas of Los Angeles. From the acclaimed author of Visitation Street, a visionary portrait of contemporary Los Angeles in all its facets, from the Mojave Desert to the Pacific, from the 110 to Skid Row. During a typically crowded morning commute, a naked runner is dodging between the stalled cars. The strange sight makes the local news and captures the imaginations of a stunning cast of misfits and lost souls. There's Ren, just out of juvie, who travels to LA in search of his mother. There's Owen and James, teenage twins who live in a desert commune, where their father, a self-proclaimed healer, holds a powerful sway over his disciples. There's Britt, who shows up at the commune harboring a dark secret. There's Tony, a bored and unhappy lawyer who is inspired by the runner. And there's Blake, a drifter hiding in the desert, doing his best to fight off his most violent instincts. Their lives will all intertwine and come crashing together in a shocking way, one that could only happen in this enchanting, dangerous city. Wonder Valley is a swirling mix of angst, violence, heartache, and yearning—a masterpiece by a writer on the rise.
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Author : Ivy Pochoda
language : de
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018-10-30
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Wonder Valley Then And Now
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Author : Stan Oken
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015-03-01
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Wonder Valley
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Author : Ivy Pochoda
language : en
Publisher: The Indigo Press
Release Date : 2018-09-20
Wonder Valley written by Ivy Pochoda and has been published by The Indigo Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-09-20 with Fiction categories.
When a teenager runs away from his father's mysterious commune, he sets in motion a domino effect that connects a cast of six characters who narrate Wonder Valley. There's Ren, just out of juvie, who travels to L.A. in search of his mother. There's Owen and James, teenage twins who live in a desert commune where their father, a self-proclaimed healer, holds a powerful sway over his disciples. There's Britt, who shows up at the commune harbouring a dark secret. There's Tony, a bored and unhappy lawyer. And there's Blake, a drifter hiding in the desert, doing his best to fight of his most violent instincts. Their lives will all intertwine and come crashing together in a shocking way, one that could only happen in this enchanting, dangerous city.• A critically acclaimed literary thriller, named as a book of the year by the Los Angeles Times, NPR and Refinery29 and Winner of the 2018 Strand Critics Award for Best Novel• PR campaign included coverage on the Guardian Books Podcast (over 1M subscribers worldwide), in addition to coverage in The American, ShotsMag, CrimeTime, Little Atoms, BookOxygen and Novel Kicks
Wonder Valley Ebook
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Author : Ivy Pochoda
language : de
Publisher: ars vivendi Verlag
Release Date : 2019-03-22
Wonder Valley Ebook written by Ivy Pochoda and has been published by ars vivendi Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-03-22 with Fiction categories.
Als ein Teenager aus der mysteriösen Heiler-Kommune seines Vaters in der Mojave-Wüste flüchtet, setzt er damit eine spektakuläre Reihe von Ereignissen in Gang, an deren Ende sich die Wege von mehreren Personen kreuzen, die allesamt ihrer Vergangenheit entfliehen wollen. Da ist der Mörder Ren, der in L. A. seine Mutter sucht, Britt, die ein dunkles Geheimnis mit sich trägt, Tony, ein unglücklicher Anwalt kurz vor dem Nervenzusammenbruch, und da sind die Gewalttäter Sam und Blake, die sich im Wonder Valley verstecken. Unter der gnadenlosen Sonne Kaliforniens knallen die Schicksale der verlorenen Seelen auf eine schockierende Weise aufeinander, wie es nur in dieser so betörenden wie gefährlichen Metropole möglich ist - ein mit visionärer literarischer Kraft geschriebenes Porträt von Los Angeles, eine Bestandsaufnahme der Hoffnungen unserer Gegenwart, aber auch ein Thriller voller Twists mit einem grandiosen Finale.
Welcome To Wonder Valley
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Author : William Hillyard
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019-11-22
Welcome To Wonder Valley written by William Hillyard and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-11-22 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Welcome to Wonder Valley You might have passed through there, maybe. Out for a drive with time on your hands you might have noticed the abandoned homestead shacks crumbling along a grid of dirt tracks scraped into this corner of the Mojave Desert. Wonder Valley. It's a place peopled by a menagerie of misfits and miscreants, artists and retirees, methheads and the otherwise marginalized. They live in the derelict cabins, fixing them up, some, or just making do in others. Author William Hillyard came to Wonder Valley to investigate the death of an old woman who had succumbed, alone, to the dry, desert heat. From his first encounter, however, Wonder Valley had a hold on Hillyard. He found it haunting and otherworldly, almost unbelievable in its strangeness. It was like a lost island, a desert Galapagos in a sea of sand. In its isolation a people had evolved, a breed apart from mainstream society, many of them living on this edge, the edge of an abyss, an abyss Hillyard felt he needed to peer down into. Hillyard appointed himself Wonder Valley's Darwin. He spent years in Wonder Valley immersed in and documenting the resilience and humanity of these people in the face of mental illness, alcoholism, poverty, and neglect, until the line between his reporting on and becoming one of them blurred. In the vein of Hillbilly Elegy and the work of Michael Perry and writers like William Vollman, Ted Conover, and William Finnegan, Welcome to Wonder Valley explores a darker side of the American dream, a side so pervasive, yet so largely unacknowledged by major media. Interwoven with the memoir of Hillyard's own fall and recovery from financial and personal crises, the book looks at life in a place where the safety net barely exists and falling through the cracks is too often fatal.
Wonder Valley
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Author : William Hillyard
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013
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You might have passed through here, maybe. Thought you'd stick to the blue roads, hit the casinos of Vegas by the back way. As you blew through this nowhere corner of the Mojave Desert you might have noticed the rat-trap shacks rotting into the sparse hardscrabble of greasewood scrub. And you'd have thought, "What the hell is this place?"
Welcome To Wonder Valley Ruin And Redemption In An American Galapagos
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Author : William Hillyard
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019-11-09
Welcome To Wonder Valley Ruin And Redemption In An American Galapagos written by William Hillyard and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-11-09 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
You might have passed through there, maybe. Out for a drive with time on your hands you might have noticed the abandoned homestead shacks crumbling along a grid of dirt tracks scraped into this corner of the Mojave Desert. Wonder Valley. It's a place peopled by a menagerie of misfits and miscreants, artists and retirees, methheads and the otherwise marginalized. They live in the derelict cabins, fixing them up, some, or just making do in others. Author William Hillyard came to Wonder Valley to investigate the death of an old woman who had succumbed, alone, to the dry desert heat. From his first encounter, however, Wonder Valley had a hold on him. He found it haunting and otherworldly, almost unbelievable in its strangeness. It was like a lost island, a desert Galapagos in a sea of sand. In its isolation a people had evolved, a breed apart from mainstream society, many of them living on this edge, the edge of an abyss, an abyss Hillyard felt he needed to peer down into. Hillyard appointed himself Wonder Valley's Darwin. He spent years in Wonder Valley immersed in and documenting the resilience and humanity of these people in the face of mental illness, alcoholism, poverty, and neglect, until the line between his reporting on and becoming one of them blurred. In the vein of Hillbilly Elegy and the work of Michael Perry and writers like William Vollman, Ted Conover, and William Finnegan, it explores a darker side of the American dream, a side so pervasive, yet so largely unacknowledged by major media. Interwoven with the memoir of Hillyard's own fall and recovery from financial and personal crises, the book looks at life in a place where the safety net barely exists and falling through the cracks is too often fatal.
Inhabiting Wonder Valley
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Author : Barbara Looney
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2002
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Liar
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Author : Rob Roberge
language : en
Publisher: Crown
Release Date : 2016-02-09
Liar written by Rob Roberge and has been published by Crown this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-02-09 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
An intense memoir about mental illness, memory and storytelling, from an acclaimed novelist. When Rob Roberge learns that he's likely to have developed a progressive memory-eroding disease from years of hard living and frequent concussions, he is terrified by the prospect of becoming a walking shadow. In a desperate attempt to preserve his identity, he sets out to (somewhat faithfully) record the most formative moments of his life—ranging from the brutal murder of his childhood girlfriend, to a diagnosis of rapid-cycling bipolar disorder, to opening for famed indie band Yo La Tengo at The Fillmore in San Francisco. But the process of trying to remember his past only exposes just how fragile the stories that lay at the heart of our self-conception really are. As Liar twists and turns through Roberge’s life, it turns the familiar story of sex, drugs, and rock ‘n’ roll on its head. Darkly funny and brutally frank, it offers a remarkable portrait of a down and out existence cobbled together across the country, from musicians’ crashpads around Boston, to seedy bars popular with sideshow freaks in Florida, to a painful moment of reckoning in the scorched Wonder Valley desert of California. As Roberge struggles to keep addiction and mental illness from destroying the good life he has built in his better moments, he is forced to acknowledge the increasingly blurred line between the lies we tell others and the lies we tell ourselves.