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Seeking the Soul of L.A. on Its Streets: Paintings and Stories by J. Michael Walker
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“Walker sees angels everywhere, the divine in the ordinary, saints in survivors" - Sandra Cisneros
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Winner of Two New Awards !!
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All the Saints of the City of the Angels
Has Just Been Awarded:
The US Review of Books:
Eric Hoffer Award for
Art Book of the Year
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The Independent Publisher Award for
Best Regional Non-Fiction
of the Pacific-Western U.S.
(tie for Gold Award)
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From the US Review of Books:
"Walker takes time to observe, letting each street tell its own story of construction, and not until the story emerges does he retell it in rich collage and gripping prose."
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"a Sam Spade of saints ... unearthing contemporary symbolism" - New York Times
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“a meditation on L.A.'s past, the ghosts that pass over this land" - Los Angeles Times
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"the best book about Los Angeles we wish we had thought of" - Sunset Magazine
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This website, all images and all text Copyright 2008/2009 by J Michael Walker, except as noted. Author photo by Kevin Scanlon. All rights reserved.
Updated 12 May 09
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