Cool Gray City of Love

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1 NORTHERN CALIFORNIA INDIE BESTSELLER
WINNER OF THE NORTHERN CALIFORNIA BOOK AWARD
WINNER OFTHE NORTHERN CALIFORNIA INDEPENDENT BOOKSELLER ASSOCIATION BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD
A runaway San Francisco Chronicle bestseller, Cool Gray Ciiy of Love is a one-of-a-kind book for a one-of-a-kind city. It's a love song in 49 chapters to an extraordinary place, taking 49 different sites around the city as points of entry and inspiration—from a seedy intersection in the Tend erioin to the soaring sea cliffs at Lands End. Encompassing the city's Spanish missionary past, a gold rush, a couple of earthquakes, the Beats, the hippies, and the dot-com boom, this book is at once a rambling walking tour, a natural and human history, and a celebration of place itself—a guide to loving any place more faithfully and fully.
"I can't imagine there' s anyone who knows San "This Is probably the best writing about
Francisco better than Gary Kamiya/
-DAVE EGGERS
San Francisco that I've read since Herb... Tovább

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1 NORTHERN CALIFORNIA INDIE BESTSELLER
WINNER OF THE NORTHERN CALIFORNIA BOOK AWARD
WINNER OFTHE NORTHERN CALIFORNIA INDEPENDENT BOOKSELLER ASSOCIATION BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD
A runaway San Francisco Chronicle bestseller, Cool Gray Ciiy of Love is a one-of-a-kind book for a one-of-a-kind city. It's a love song in 49 chapters to an extraordinary place, taking 49 different sites around the city as points of entry and inspiration—from a seedy intersection in the Tend erioin to the soaring sea cliffs at Lands End. Encompassing the city's Spanish missionary past, a gold rush, a couple of earthquakes, the Beats, the hippies, and the dot-com boom, this book is at once a rambling walking tour, a natural and human history, and a celebration of place itself—a guide to loving any place more faithfully and fully.
"I can't imagine there' s anyone who knows San "This Is probably the best writing about
Francisco better than Gary Kamiya/
-DAVE EGGERS
San Francisco that I've read since Herb Caen. -MICHAEL KRASNY, KQED, Forum
"Kamiya proves an ardent, expert guide to his hometown's history, neighborhoods and landmarks Cool Gray Ciiy of Love will open your eyes anew." —San Jose Mercury News
"A kaleidoscopic homage both personal and historical Kamlya's symphony of San Francisco is a grand pleasure." —TAe New York Times Book f^eview
GARY K AM IYA was born in Oakland in 1953, grew up in Berkeley, and has lived in San Francisco since 1971. He cofounded Salon.com, where he was executive editor for twelve years and then a columnist. His first book. Shadow Knighis: The Secrei War Against Niiler, was a critically acclaimed history of Britain's top secret Special Operations Executive. Kamiya is currently executive editor of San Francisco magazine. Vissza