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02323aam a2200433 i 4500 001 E8BD8142FC9811EABCFA80185BECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20200922010022 008 200412t20202020mnu e b 000 0 eng 010 $a 2020015243 020 $a 1566895820 020 $a 9781566895828 035 $a (OCoLC)1158503630 040 $a LBSOR/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d IHY $d YDX $d IOU $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a HT352.U6 $b D52 2020 082 00 $a 307.740973 $2 23 100 1 $a Diamond, Jason, $e author. 245 14 $a The sprawl : $b reconsidering the weird American suburbs / $c Jason Diamond. 246 30 $a Reconsidering the weird American suburbs 264 1 $a Minneapolis : $b Coffee House Press, $c 2020. 300 $a xviii, 238 pages ; $c 21 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references. 505 0 $a We were promised hoverboards -- If you build it, he will come -- Not allowed -- Life on Mars -- Monsters, mad men, and the mundane -- What's reality, anyway? -- Mousepacks -- In the garage -- Mondo-condo-shopping-mall-hell -- The battle for the soul of Nod Road -- Go back to the suburbs. 520 $a "For decades the suburbs have been where art happens "despite": despite the conformity, the emptiness, the sameness. The familiar story is one of gems formed under pressure, creative transcendence fueled by suburban resentment. But what if the suburb has actually been an incubator for distinctly American art, as positively and as surely as in any other cultural hothouse? Mixing personal experience, cultural reportage, and history while rejecting clicheÌs and pieties, these essays stretch across the country in an effort to show that this uniquely American milieu deserves another look"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Suburban life $z United States. 650 0 $a Suburbs $z United States. 941 $a 8 952 $l DPPE403 $d 20240611014356.0 952 $l PMAX975 $d 20210709142029.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20210406014437.0 952 $l XAPE737 $d 20210305010616.0 952 $l GDPF771 $d 20201010010505.0 952 $l GBPF771 $d 20201002012210.0 952 $l TDPH826 $d 20201002011122.0 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20200922010309.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=E8BD8142FC9811EABCFA80185BECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b IOUInitiate Another SILO Locator Search