| Description |
xviii, 238 pages ; 21 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-235). |
| Contents |
We were promised hoverboards -- If you build it, he will come -- Not allowed -- Life on Mars -- Monsters, mad men, and the mundane -- What's reality, anyway? -- Mousepacks -- In the garage -- Mondo-condo-shopping-mall-hell -- The battle for the soul of Nod Road -- Go back to the suburbs. |
| Summary |
"For decades the suburbs have been where art happens "despite": despite the conformity, the emptiness, the sameness. The familiar story is one of gems formed under pressure, creative transcendence fueled by suburban resentment. But what if the suburb has actually been an incubator for distinctly American art, as positively and as surely as in any other cultural hothouse? Mixing personal experience, cultural reportage, and history while rejecting clichés and pieties, these essays stretch across the country in an effort to show that this uniquely American milieu deserves another look"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Subject |
Suburban life -- United States.
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Suburbs -- United States.
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Suburban life. (OCoLC)fst01136930
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Suburbs. (OCoLC)fst01136941
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Diamond, Jason. Sprawl Minneapolis : Coffee House Press, 2020. 9781566895903 (DLC) 2020015244 |
| ISBN |
9781566895828 (paperback) |
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1566895820 (paperback) |
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9781566895903 electronic book |
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