Dana Goodyear * New Yorker *Īngelenos, now is the time to lean into Mike Davis's apocalyptic, passionate, radical rants on the sprawling, gorgeous mess that is Los Angeles. canon as anything that Carey McWilliams wrote in the forties or Joan Didion wrote in the seventies. Peter Ackroyd * The Times *Īs central to the L.A.
* San Francisco Examiner *Ī history as fascinating as it is instructive.
William Gibsonįew books shed as much light on their subjects as this opinionated and original excavation of Los Angeles from the mythical debris of its past and future. Publisher: Verso Books ISBN: 9781786635891 Number of pages: 512 Weight: 545 g Dimensions: 198 x 129 x 32 mm MEDIA REVIEWSĪbsolutely fascinating. He gives us a city of Dickensian extremes, Pynchonesque conspiracies, and a desperation straight out of Nathaniel West - a city in which we may glimpse our own future mirrored with terrifying clarity. He tells us who has the power and how they hold on to it. In City of Quartz, Davis reconstructs LA's shadow history and dissects its ethereal economy.
To its official boosters, "Los Angeles brings it all together." To detractors, LA is a sunlit mortuary where "you can rot without feeling it." To Mike Davis, the author of this fiercely elegant and wide-ranging work of social history, Los Angeles is both utopia and dystopia, a place where the last Joshua trees are being plowed under to make room for model communities in the desert, where the rich have hired their own police to fend off street gangs, as well as armed Beirut militias. No metropolis has been more loved or more hated.
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