Cool, Gray
City of Love brings together an exuberant combination of personal insight,
deeply researched history, in-depth reporting, and lyrical prose to create an
unparalleled portrait of San Francisco. Each of its 49 chapters explores a
specific site or intersection in the city, from the mighty Golden Gate Bridge
to the raunchy Tenderloin to the soaring sea cliffs at Land's End.
This
unique approach captures the exhilarating experience of walking through San
Francisco's sublime terrain, while at the same time tying that experience to a
history as rollicking and unpredictable as the city herself. From her absurd
beginnings as the most distant and moth-eaten outpost of the world's most
extensive empire, to her instantaneous fame during the Gold Rush, from her
apocalyptic destruction by earthquake and fire to her perennial embrace of
rebels, dreamers, hedonists and misfits of all stripes, the City by the Bay has
always followed a trajectory as wildly independent as the untrammeled natural
forces that created her.
This
ambitious, eclectic, and beautifully written book draws on everything from
on-the-ground reporting to obscure academic papers to the author's 40-year life
in San Francisco to create a rich and insightful portrait of a magical corner
of the world. Complete with hand-drawn maps ofthe 49locations, this handsome
package will sit comfortably on the short shelf of enduring books about places,
alongside E. B. White's Here is New York, Jose Saramago's Journey to Portugal,
or Alfred Kazin's A Walker in the City.
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