Teddy Roosevelt once exclaimed, "When I am in California, I am not in the West. "The Summer of the Dea.
Compelling, lyrical, and ominous, his new collection finds a different drama rising out of each confounding landscape.
This is California as only a native son, deep in the dust, could draw it.
This is California beyond the clich s.
I am West of the West," and in this book, Mark Arax spends four years travelling up and down the Golden State to explore its singular place in the world.
Teddy Roosevelt once exclaimed, "When I am in California, I am not in the West