All the Saints of the City of the angels
Seeking the Soul of L.A. on Its Streets
Paintings and Stories by J. Michael Walker
The fruit of eight years researching, walking, and portraying the more than one hundred streets named for saints in L.A.,
this stunning book gathers all the stories and paintings into one grand meditation on the ways in which
saintly legend intersects civil history to inform and deepen our understanding of contemporary life.

Cover of All the Saints of the City of the Angels by J Michael Walker, Heyday Books 2008
All the Saints of the City of the Angels: Seeking the Soul of L.A. on Its Streets
Paintings and Stories
by J. Michael Walker
Gold Foil Cover, Full-color throughout, sumptuously designed, 230 pages with Bibliography & Notes. Softcover with flaps,
9 x 12. $35.


“Walker sees angels everywhere,
the divine in the ordinary, saints in survivors.
And that, in our era of fear and rage, is miracle enough for me.”
-Sandra Cisneros,
author of
The House on Mango Street and Caramelo
   Sample Pages:
Title page and Frontispiece of All the Saints of the City of the Angels by J Michael Walker, Heyday Books 2008

Intro pages of Santa Ynez Street story from All the Saints of the City of the Angels by J Michael Walker, Heyday Books 2008

All the Saints of Battle and Intro to Fnal chapter of All the Saints of the City of the Angels by J Michael Walker, Heyday Books 2008

Entry Pages to Santa Ynez of the Pacific Palisades, from All the Saints of the City of the Angels by J Michael Walker, Heyday Books 2008
Santa Rita Street, from All the Saints of the City of the Angels by J Michael Walker, Heyday Books 2008


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