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Mount Terminus (2014)

by David Grand(Favorite Author)

3.73 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

0374280886 (ISBN13: 9780374280888)

languge

English

genre

Historical Fiction

publisher

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

review 1: This is an odd and beautiful book. It overlays both the distant and even farther distant past of California with a fairy-tale like structure of two brothers born of the same fathers and twin sisters. The book evokes the genocide of the Native Californians, the life of the Californios, the early movie industry, and the development of water and land in Southern California, through the strangely symbiotic relationship between the brothers, both Jewish, one a reclusive artist and the other a ruthless builder.
review 2: The premise seemed engaging -- development of Los Angeles through the eyes of a young man whose father had invented a device enabling film to pass through Edison's device. Unfortunately, research was spotty in the execution of the progress of Holl... moreywood as a town and as an industry. There was an exceptional story here, but this alas wasn't it. I also felt a disconnect with the characters whose personal lives didn't jibe with the story. There were a few loops that should have made their histories more attainable, but with incomprehensible shifts in focus, it never really took hold for me. less

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