{"product_id":"holy-land-d-j-waldie-9780393327281","title":"Holy Land: A Suburban Memoir","description":"\u003cp\u003eSince its publication in 1996, \u003cem\u003eHoly Land\u003c\/em\u003e has become an American classic. In \"quick, translucent prose\" (Michiko Kakutani, \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e) that is at once lyrical and unsentimental, D. J. Waldie recounts growing up in Lakewood, California, a prototypical post-World War II suburb. Laid out in 316 sections as carefully measured as a grid of tract houses, \u003cem\u003eHoly Land\u003c\/em\u003e is by turns touching, eerie, funny, and encyclopedic in its handling of what was gained and lost when thousands of blue-collar families were thrown together in the suburbs of the 1950s. An intensely realized and wholly original memoir about the way in which a place can shape a life, \u003cem\u003eHoly Land\u003c\/em\u003e is ultimately about the resonance of choices--how wide a street should be, what to name a park--and the hopes that are realized in the habits of everyday life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e D. J. Waldie\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0393327280\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780393327281\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e W. W. Norton \u0026amp; Company\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/17\/2005\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 208\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.42lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.24h x 5.58w x 0.53d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eIngram Advance\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/01\/2005 pg. 44","brand":"D. J. Waldie","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44048324460799,"sku":"9780393327281","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_78e4dc4f-be04-4e5e-919a-e3de758e75b6.jpg?v=1684995158","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/holy-land-d-j-waldie-9780393327281","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}