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When a car smashes into a sculpture of a giant cowgirl, the police
find two bodies in the trunk. Nineteen-year-old Nick Toussaint Jr.
is arrested for murder. As the details of the crime rip across the
Internet, his sixteen-year-old girlfriend, Emily Portis, is nearly
consumed by a public hungry for every lurid detail, accurate or
not. Rosecrans Baldwin's The Last Kid Left is a bold, searching
novel about how our relationships operate in a hyper-connected
world, about a tragedy turned mercilessly into entertainment. And
it's the suspenseful unwinding of a crime that's more complex than
it initially seems. But mostly it's the story of two teenagers,
dismantled by circumstances and rotten luck, who are desperate to
believe that love is enough to save them. - For readers of
Christopher J. Yates and Noah Hawley - One of Entertainment
Weekly's Best Books of the Month
A LOS ANGELES TIMES BESTSELLER. NAMED A BEST CALIFORNIA BOOKS OF
2021 BY THE NEW YORK TIMES A provocative, exhilaratingly new
understanding of the United States' most confounding
metropolis--not just a great city, but a full-blown modern
city-state America is obsessed with Los Angeles. And America has
been thinking about Los Angeles all wrong, for decades, on repeat.
Los Angeles is not just the place where the American dream hits the
Pacific. (It has its own dreams.) Not just the vanishing point of
America's western drive. (It has its own compass.) Functionally,
aesthetically, mythologically, even technologically, an independent
territory, defined less by distinct borders than by an aura of
autonomy and a sense of unfurling destiny--this is the city-state
of Los Angeles. Deeply reported and researched, provocatively
argued, and eloquently written, Rosecrans Baldwin's Everything Now
approaches the metropolis from unexpected angles, nimbly
interleaving his own voice with a chorus of others, from canonical
L.A. literature to everyday citizens. Here, Octavia E. Butler and
Joan Didion are in conversation with activists and astronauts,
vampires and veterans. Baldwin records the stories of countless
Angelenos, discovering people both upended and reborn: by disasters
natural and economic, following gospels of wealth or self-help or
personal destiny. The result is a story of a kaleidoscopic, vibrant
nation unto itself--vastly more than its many, many parts.
Baldwin's concept of the city-state allows us, finally, to grasp a
place--Los Angeles--whose idiosyncrasies both magnify those of
America, and are so fully its own. Here, space and time don't quite
work the same as they do elsewhere, and contradictions are as stark
as southern California's natural environment. Perhaps no better
place exists to watch the United States's past, and its possible
futures, play themselves out. Welcome to Los Angeles, the Great
American City-State.
A self-described Francophile since the age of nine, Rosecrans
Baldwin had always dreamed of living in France. So when an offer
presented itself to work at a Parisian ad agency, he couldn't turn
it down even though he had no experience in advertising, and even
though he hardly spoke French.But the Paris that Rosecrans and his
wife, Rachel, arrived in wasn't the romantic city he remembered,
and over the next eighteen months, his dogged American optimism was
put to the test: at work (where he wrote booklets on
breastfeeding), at home (in the hub of a massive construction
project), and at every confusing dinner party in between. A
hilarious and refreshingly honest look at one of our most beloved
cities, "Paris, I Love You" is the story of a young man whose
preconceptions are usurped by the oddities of a vigorous, nervy
metropolis which is just what he needs to fall in love with Paris a
second time."
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