| Book Review | Western Historical Quarterly 32.2

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Book Review

Imagining Los Angeles: A City in Fiction. By David Fine. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2000. xi + 293 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. $29.95.)

Literary cities embody people's dreams. Writers write from these locales or about them because they represent a nexus of thought and action at a particular time. David Fine, in his book Imagining Los Angeles: A City In Fiction, traces the history of City of Angels in nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature from its boosterism beginnings as a promotional city without center to contemporary attitudes about life and death on the West Coast. . . .

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