From one of our most astute contemporary writers, Amy Wilentz, comes an irreverent, inventive portrait of the state of California and its unlikely governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger. The prizewinning author, a lifelong easterner and an outsider in the West, takes the reader on a picaresque journey from exclusive Hollywood soirees to a fantasy city in the Mojave desert, from the La Brea Tar Pits to celebrity-besotted Sacramento, from the tents of Skid Row to surf-drunk Malibu, from a snowbird retreat near Mexico to the hippie preserve of tide-beaten Big Sur, along the way offering up sharp observations on politics, fund-raising, the water supply, the Beach Boys, earthquake preparedness, home economics, catastrophism, movie-star politicians, political movie stars, Charlie Manson, and location scouts who want to rent your house in order to make television commercials for bathroom wall cleansers or Swedish banks.
Wilentz moved to Los Angeles from a Manhattan wounded by September 11, only to discover a paradise marred by fire, flood, and mudslides. In what seemed like a joke to her, a Democratic governor nicknamed Gumby was about to be ousted by an Austrian muscleman in a bizarre election promoted by a millionaire whose business was car alarms. Intrigued, she set out to find the essence of the quirky, trailblazing state. During her travels, she spots celebrities but can't quite place them, drops in on famous salons with habitués like Warren Beatty and Arianna Huffington, and visits the neglected office of one very special 9,000-year-old woman.
Plunging into the traffic of California, Wilentz noodles out meaning in some of the least likely of places; she sees the political in the personal and the personal in the political. By now an expert on tremors real and imagined, she offers readers on both coasts insights into where California stands today, and America as well.
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I Feel Earthquakes More Often Than They Happen
Coming to California in the Age of Schwarzenegger
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eBook - ePub
I Feel Earthquakes More Often Than They Happen
Coming to California in the Age of Schwarzenegger
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Colophon
- Also by Amy Wilentz
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Epigraph
- Prologue: California City
- Part One: Focus Puller
- One The Dead Point
- Two Stardom in Its Purest Form
- Three Dog Days
- Part Two: Sunset
- Four Theories of Relativity
- Five Modern Luxury
- Part Three: Crashland
- Six These Things
- Seven Instant Cities
- Eight The Game of Celebrity
- Acknowledgments
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the Author
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