The Sprawl : Reconsidering the Weird American Suburbs

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Call Number: 307.74 Di, Adult Book / Nonfiction / Literary Arts / Essays / Diamond, Jason
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

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Westgate Adult Books 4-week checkout	Adult Book / Nonfiction / Literary Arts / Essays / Diamond, Jason	4-week checkout	Due 05-21-2024

We were promised hoverboards -- If you build it, he will come -- Not allowed -- Life on Mars -- Monsters, mad men, and the mundane -- What's reality, anyway? -- Mousepacks -- In the garage -- Mondo-condo-shopping-mall-hell -- The battle for the soul of Nod Road -- Go back to the suburbs.
"For decades the suburbs have been where art happens "despite": despite the conformity, the emptiness, the sameness. The familiar story is one of gems formed under pressure, creative transcendence fueled by suburban resentment. But what if the suburb has actually been an incubator for distinctly American art, as positively and as surely as in any other cultural hothouse? Mixing personal experience, cultural reportage, and history while rejecting clichés and pieties, these essays stretch across the country in an effort to show that this uniquely American milieu deserves another look"-- Provided by publisher.

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