{"id":1036,"date":"2012-02-14T16:06:02","date_gmt":"2012-02-15T00:06:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/antoinewilson.com\/wotwhat\/?page_id=1036"},"modified":"2016-07-23T20:10:38","modified_gmt":"2016-07-24T03:10:38","slug":"panorama-city-a-description","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/antoinewilson.com\/wotwhat\/panorama-city-page\/panorama-city-a-description\/","title":{"rendered":"Panorama City, a description"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Panorama City<\/em>, A Novel<\/strong><\/p>\n

From his deathbed*, twenty-eight-year-old Oppen Porter–an open-hearted, bicycle-riding, binocular-toting, self-described slow absorber–unspools into a cassette recorder a tale of self-determination, from village idiot to man of the world, for the benefit of his unborn son.<\/p>\n

Written in an astonishingly charming and wise voice, Oppen\u2019s account traces forty days and nights navigating the fast-food joints, storefront churches, and home-office psychologists of the San Fernando Valley. Ping-ponging between his watchful and sharp-tongued aunt and an outlaw philosopher with the face \u201cof a newly hatched crocodile,\u201d Oppen finds himself constantly in the sights of people who believe that their way is the only way for him.<\/p>\n

Oppen Porter is “an American original” (Stewart O’Nan) for whom finding one’s own way is both a delightful art and a painstaking science. Disarmingly funny and surreptitiously moving, Panorama City makes us see the world, and our place in it, with new eyes.<\/p>\n

* Not really.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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