Ebook {Epub PDF} West of Eden: An American Place by Jean Stein

As she did in Edie, Jean Stein weaves together the personal recollections of an array of individuals to create an astonishing tapestry of a place like no other. Praise for West of Eden "Compulsively readable, capturing not just a vibrant part of the history of Los Angeles--that uniquely 'American Place' Stein refers to in her subtitle--but also 3/5(3).  · W hen John Steinbeck relocated the story of our expulsion from paradise to California, he called his novel East of Eden. Jean Stein’s moral compass points the other way, but her oral history of Estimated Reading Time: 6 mins. Jean Stein transformed the art of oral history in her groundbreaking book Edie: American Girl, an indelible portrait of Andy Warhol “superstar” Edie Sedgwick, which was edited with George Plimpton. Now, in West of Eden, she turns to Los Angeles, the city of her childhood. Stein vividly captures a mythic cast of characters: their ambitions and triumphs as well as their desolation and grief/5().

Jean Stein's new book "West of Eden: An American Place is told in the oral form tradition she used in her bestselling oral biography, Edie: An American Biography. West of Eden illuminates five aspiring individuals whose dreams were big and their American place is Southern California, back in the day. Stein's subjects are Caucasian and inhabit a certain economic and. Stein has been interviewing subjects for West of Eden for over thirty years, and people like Dennis Hopper and Stephen Sondheim and Lauren Bacall show up in its pages. Hopper recalled a time when he and James Dean, while filming Easy Rider, were introduced to Serge Semenenko (who had just bought Warner Brothers) by Jack Warner. WEST OF EDEN: An American Place. By Jean Stein Random House, February 9, Jean Stein influenced the art of oral history in her groundbreaking book Edie: American Girl, an indelible portrait of Andy Warhol "superstar" Edie Sedgwick that was edited with George www.doorway.ru, in West of Eden, Stein turns her lens toward the city Sedgwick came from—Los Angeles—and a mythic cast of.

www.doorway.ru: West of Eden: An American Place () by Stein, Jean and a great selection of similar New, Used and Collectible Books available now at great prices. West of Eden depicts the city that has projected its own image of America onto the world, in all its idealism and paradox. As she did in Edie, Jean Stein weaves together the personal recollections of an array of individuals to create an astonishing tapestry of a place like no other. Jean Stein transformed the art of oral history in her groundbreaking book Edie: American Girl, an indelible portrait of Andy Warhol “superstar” Edie Sedgwick, which was edited with George Plimpton. Now, in West of Eden, she turns to Los Angeles, the city of her childhood. Stein vividly captures a mythic cast of characters: their ambitions and triumphs as well as their desolation and grief.