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The Ruins of California
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ISBN10: 1594482314
ISBN13: 9781594482311
Publisher: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr
Published: Jan 2 2007
Pages: 384
Weight: 0.66
Height: 1.05 Width: 5.14 Depth: 7.98
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781594482311
Publisher: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr
Published: Jan 2 2007
Pages: 384
Weight: 0.66
Height: 1.05 Width: 5.14 Depth: 7.98
Language: English
For the Ruin family in 1970s California, as described by the precocious young Inez, life is complex. Her father, Paul, is self-obsessed, intrusive, and brilliant. He's also twice divorced, leaving Inez to bounce between two worlds and embracing neither-that of Paul's bohemian life in San Francisco and the more sedate world of her mother Connie, a Latin bombshell who plays tennis and attends EST seminars in the suburbs. As Inez progresses through high school we are witness to a remarkable family saga that renders a strange and fascinating slice of America in transition-one like the Ruins of California themselves, at once bold and innocent, creative and chaotic, obsessed and liberating.
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