1970s Marin County, California

[Jesse T Sheidlower]

>
> Rescuing books from a basement flood, I came across a favorite book of mine,
> not well known, that renders the language and lifestyle of Marin County, CA
> (just across the Golden Gate from San Francisco) in the 1970s with perfect
> pitch. It is _The Serial_ by Cyra McFadden, orignally published weekly in the
> _Pacific Sun_, then in a spiral-bound edition by Knopf in 1977. Every

The language is great in this book. Both the OED and the RHHDAS
have made heavy use of it.

Jesse Sheidlower
<jester at panix.com)