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All the Saints of the City of the angels
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Seeking the Soul of L.A. on Its Streets
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Paintings and Stories by J. Michael Walker
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The New Book from Heyday!
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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.
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All the Saints of the City of the Angels: Seeking the Soul of L.A. on Its Streets
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Paintings and Stories
by J. Michael Walker
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Gold Foil Cover, Full-color throughout, sumptuously designed, 230 pages with Bibliography & Notes. Softcover with flaps,
9 x 12. $35.
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“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.”
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-Sandra Cisneros,
author of
The House on Mango Street and Caramelo
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All the Saints of the City of the Angels. This website, all images and all text Copyright 2008 by J Michael Walker. All rights reserved
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