Joan Didion

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Reinventing the Southern California Novel: Marisa Silver’s The God of War

By Rodger Jacobs

Silver took the vital ingredients of a regional novel and composed an L.A. tale, but set many miles east -- at the edge of the desolate Salton Sea -- a wasteland that would have held tremendous appeal to T.S. Eliot. [30 September 2008]

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