Medieval in LA

Jim Paul muses on Western philosophy and the medieval mind as he makes his way through a harried weekend in Los Angeles, yielding a ?delightful...humorous? book (Bloomsbury Review) whose every ?sentence bursts with information, gorgeously put? (New Yorker).

About the author

Jim Paul, author of Catapult: Harry and I Build a Siege Weapon, What's Called Love, and Medieval in L.A., is a poet and translator. A recipient of a Wallace Stegner Creative Writing Fellowship and a Guggenheim Fellowship, he lives in San Francisco.

Summary

Jim Paul muses on Western philosophy and the medieval mind as he makes his way through a harried weekend in Los Angeles, yielding a “delightful...humorous” book (Bloomsbury Review) whose every “sentence bursts with information, gorgeously put” (New Yorker).

Product details

• Authors: Jim Paul
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.10.1997
• EAN: 9780156005371
• ISBN: 978-0-15-600537-1
• No. of pages: 240
• Weight: 4531 g
• Series: Harvest Book; Harvest Book
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION: Literary, FICTION: Thrillers / Suspense, FICTION: Short Stories (single author), FICTION: Absurdist *, FICTION: Thrillers / Psychological, FICTION: Anthologies (multiple authors), FICTION: Psychological, LITERARY COLLECTIONS: Medieval, FICTION: World Literature / American / 21st Century, FICTION: World Literature / Central America, FICTION: World Literature / American / 20th Century, FICTION: World Literature / American / General