Whether in history books or on the silver screen, the Los Angeles landscape has long served as an ever-shifting backdrop against which countless American anxieties and aspirations play out. New York-based novelist and short-story writer A. M. Homes distills the elusive, quixotic splendor of this most beguiling of great American cities. She checks us into the famed hotel Chateau Marmont and uses life at this iconic landmark as a multifaceted prism through which to view and experience Los Angeles culture, past and present. Built in the 1920s, the Chateau Marmont is where the famous and infamous have always come to stay - for a few days or months at a time - and sometimes, to die.
- ISBN10 1426209061
- ISBN13 9781426209062
- Publish Date 15 June 2011 (first published 31 December 2002)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint National Geographic Society
- Format eBook
- Pages 192
- Language English