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San Francisco Stories: Tales of the City

It falls down. It burns up. It goes Beatnik in the fifties and crazy in the sixties. It stays elegant throughout. Every city has its stories, but San Francisco seems to have more than most. From Jack Kerouac on working on the railroad to Anne Lamott on getting kicked out of the cafe scene, and from Jack London on the 1906 earthquake to Tom Wolfe on the acid tests of the 1960s, San Francisco Storiescollects the most outstanding writings about the city from some of the most distinguished authors of the last 150 years.

Genre
literary fiction
Setting
1990ssan franciscocalifornia
Subject
biographyhistory
Audience
adult
Length
medium · 304 pages
Form
short stories

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