A California Childhood

A California Childhood

The trade paperback reprint of James Francoâ€™s thoughtful reflection on childhood through a series of personal snapshots, sketches, paintings, poems, and short stories.

An actor treads the line between reality and fiction every time he plays a part, and for James Franco, that exploration isnâ€™t limited to the screenâ€”heâ€™s also a visual artist with several exhibitions under his belt as well as the author of the widely praised story collection Palo Alto. In A California Childhood he plays with the concept of memoir through personal snapshots, sketches, paintings, poems, and stories. â€œI was born in 1978 at Stanford Hospital and spent my first eighteen years in a single house at the end of a cul-de-sac in Palo Alto,â€ Franco writes in his introduction. Steve Jobsâ€™s daughter and the grandson of one of the Hewlett-Packard founders may have both been in his graduating class, but just across the freeway from his home turf lay East Palo Alto, which in 1992 had the highest murder rate per capita in the country. For Franco, the terrain of his upbringing is fraught with the complication of a city divided. But within that diversity, universal aspects of adolescence rise to the surface, and those are the subjects at the heart of Francoâ€™s work. Ultimately this is a portrait of a childhood brightened by California sunshine, but with trouble waiting in the shadows. At turns funny, dark, and emotional, the journey of this book delivers an undeniable immediacy. And at the end, the reader is left wondering just where the boundary lies between Francoâ€™s art and his true life.

Country	USA
Author	James Franco
Binding	Paperback
Brand	Franco, James
EAN	9781608873937
ISBN	1608873935
Label	Insight Editions
Manufacturer	Insight Editions
MPN	illustrations (colour)
NumberOfItems	1
NumberOfPages	168
PartNumber	illustrations (colour)
PublicationDate	2014-08-12
Publisher	Insight Editions
ReleaseDate	2014-08-12
Studio	Insight Editions

A California Childhood

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