Edgewater Angels.Edgewater Edgewater is a common name used throughout the world as a place name. It is often found in English-speaking countries such as Australia, Canada, United Kingdom and United States. Angels by Sandro Meallet Doubleday. 324 pages. $20.00. There are multiple fault lines running though Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. . One kind of fault line--poverty--rocks tens of thousands of very poor Angelinos every day. Hunger, rat infestations, the slow-motion bullets from lead paint poisonings, and the fast-action charges from automatic weapons--fired by cops and gang-bangers--often make life treacherous and childhood short-lived. Writer Sandro Meallet grew up on poverty's fault line, inside L.A.'s notorious Rancho San Pedro The Rancho San Pedro land grant was validated by the Mexican government at 48,000 acres (195 km²) in 1828, and a US land grant validating 25,000 acres (100 km²) was issued in 1858 by the state of California. housing projects. He tells about it in compelling and original street prose. In his autobiographical novel An autobiographical novel is a novel based on the life of the author. The literary technique is distinguished from an autobiography or memoir by the stipulation of being fiction. , Edgewater Angels, Mealier weaves a wealth of personal experience into a coming-of-age tale that will have you turning pages almost faster than you can read them. |
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