Travels in San Francisco - Softcover

Gold, Herbert

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ISBN 10: 1559700866 ISBN 13: 9781559700863

Publisher: Arcade Pub, 1991

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A longtime resident of San Francisco takes readers on a fictional tour of the picturesque, lively metropolitan center, visiting the city's restaurants, cafes, and ethnic neighborhoods

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From Library Journal:

In sketches written for the local papers well before the recent destructive earthquake, novelist Gold ( A Girl of Forty, Fathers ) chronicles modern San Francisco. The city's abundant pride has not been licked by the flight of business and banking to Los Angeles. San Francisco continues to draw not only cafe refugees, storefront prophets, and tourists, but also a growing crowd of yuppies. Gold overhears or initiates conversations about art, religion, food, sex, and nostalgia--all topics to which the locals bring a peculiar creativity and idealism. Missing from Gold's picture is the city's remarkable ethnic mix and its working class. Of San Francisco's 50 square miles, Gold inhabits only ten. But his observations are keen and his details amusing. Recommended for prideful locals and adventuresome tourists.
- Timothy L. Zindel, Hastings Coll. of the Law, San Francisco
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Publishers Weekly:

In this collection of light sketches Gold presents his impressions of groovers, flower-child adults and cosmic artists--with a square citizen or two thrown in for good measure--whom he encountered while hanging out in a city where "uptight is the minimum daily requirement of what not to be." In affectless prose he gives the reader a series of still-lives, refers to a few picture-postcard sites and says disappointingly little. At the end only one strong impression lingers: Gold would prefer that you not smoke in his presence. With few exceptions the sketches fail to convey a sense of place, in this most there of American cities. Gold ( Dreaming ) has lived in San Francisco for almost 30 years, but these pieces reveal virtually nothing about the city and its "colorful characters" that can't be glommed by a tourist on a brief visit. Photos.
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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