Golden Days (California Fiction)
by Carolyn See
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Author: Carolyn SeeEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1996-10-06
ISBN: 0520206738
Number of pages: 196
Publisher: University of California Press
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Book Review: A fascinating book
Summary: 4 Stars
A fascinating book--in part because you know, from reading the inside book jacket synopsis and the hints in the narrative, that this will be a book about nuclear war. But the war doesn't happen until 5/6 of the way in...and up until that point, it's a book about a lot of things: female friendship, love, hope, fear, California. In our current time of irony and sarcasm, it was both refreshing, and a little difficult at first, to completely stay with the narrator as she begins to believe a self-help guru's spiel about light, positive energy, and how what you believe will come true. In the final portion of the book though, which describes what happened after the nuclear war - all the self help speak becomes incredibly moving, and the novel really deepened for me. The book relies a lot on voice, and sometimes I wished there could be more fully developed scenes, but there's enough specific imagery and beautiful details here and there to keep you grounded. The beginning and middle can be slow-going at times, but beneath the slowness is this incredible build-up of tension as the war nears. Written in 1986, some of the personal anger towards men seems old-fashioned in some regards--but seen in the context of an approaching nuclear war, which the narrator believes (probably true) will be caused by men, her anger becomes convincing and justifiable.
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Available again in paperback, Golden Days is a major novel from one of the most provocative voices on the American literary scene. Linking the recent past with an imagined future, Carolyn See captures life in Los Angeles in the 70s and 80s. This marvelously imaginative, hilarious, and original work offers fresh insights into the way we were, the way we are, and the way we could end up.United States Books
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