Literary World of San Francisco and Its Environs

by Don Herron

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0872861570
• ISBN13: 9780872861572
• Release Date: January 1985
• Publisher: City Lights Books
• Length: 247 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 4.5" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

All modern writing has been influenced from San Francisco?

It's hard to believe that San Francisco could be the origin of a majority of the important literary developments of the modern age-yet Mr. Herron has rolled out that ball of yarn for for the interest of tourist AND native to the City."Maltese Falcon" for instance; if you really trek down to the alley you'll be across the street from where Stevenson had his coffee. I freely engineered my ephemeral 1987 "CALIFORNIA STAR" against the template of the book-shoring up perfectly my thesis...Twain and the others were treasure hunters, and recorded the flotsam of their adventuring into Bohemia for the "big" story, as "detective novels." How many know the connections between the women writers and our modern civil liberties? Science fiction or facts? It's all there, and as good a way of seeing this magnificent state as pilgrimaging to the Missions once was popular-take the time to see where our most gifted writers had taken up residence-or went to carouse- and you can "Bogart" some atmosphere!

This Wonderful Book Sould Be Back In Print!

This book was THE great book for self-guided walking tours of San Francisco. Lost a copy of it myself and would love to find or buy another. This was a wonderful book that always led one to adventures. Why is this out of print?