![]() White's Here is New York, Jose Saramago's Journey to Portugal, or Alfred Kazin's A Walker in the City, Cool, Gray City of Love is an ambitious, insightful one-of-a-kind book for a one-of-a-kind city. Encompassing the city's Spanish missionary past, a gold rush, a couple of earthquakes, the Beats, the hippies, and the dot-com boom, this book is at once a rambling walking tour, a natural and human history, and a celebration of place itself-a guide to loving any city more faithfully and fully.įor readers of E. Each of its 49 chapters explores a specific site or intersection in the city, from the mighty Golden Gate Bridge to the raunchy Tenderloin to the soaring sea cliffs at Land's End. ![]() The bestselling love letter to one of the world's great cities, San Francisco, by a life-long Bay Area resident and co-founder of Salon.Ĭool, Gray City of Love brings together an exuberant combination of personal history, deeply researched history, in-depth reporting, and lyrical prose to create an unparalleled portrait of San Francisco. Kamiya's symphony of San Francisco is a grand pleasure." - New York Times Book Review ![]() She is fairer than others are Whom they sing the beauty of. ![]() ![]() "A kaleidoscopic homage both personal and historical. The Cool, Grey City of Love by George Sterling Tho I die on a distant strand, And they give me a grave in that land, Yet carry me back to my own city Carry me back to her grace and pity For I think I could not rest Afar from her mighty breast. ![]()
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