Real Places: An Unconventional Guide to America's Generic Landscape

by Grady Clay

Book Overview

In Real Places, Grady Clay presents the American landscape in a completely fresh and untypical way. Rather than look at locations, he studies constructed, imaginative sites. Clay explores the fascination of "Fall Color Country," or "Lover's Lane." What draws people to these "generic" landscapes and keeps them coming back literally and figuratively time and time again? Real Places catalogs and describes a unique cross-section of America,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226109461
• ISBN13: 9780226109466
• Release Date: November 1994
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 322 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 8.8" x 9.6"