Napa at Last Light: America's Eden in an Age of Calamity

Publisher Marketing: "For decades, James Conaway has kept a keen eye on this unusually fecund--and fraught--piece of ground, and has meticulously charted its long, sad decline toward some sort of thematic caricature of itself, a Disney World of the Grape. In this fine book, we see how that decline happened. It's all here: The titanic egos, the real estate wrangling, the corporate high jinks that, little by little, brought this sun-kissed paradise firmly under the spell of Mammon." --Hampton Sides, bestselling author of Blood and Thunder and In the Kingdom of Ice. Review Quotes : "This is a stunning and sad look at how an idyllic community became a victim of its own success...fascinating and well-researched." -- Publishers Weekly , Starred Review Review Quotes : "Characters lifted from soap operas, environmental degradation born of hubris, and out-of-balance wines that smack of masstige: James Conway has written a gossipy allegory for our profit-drunk times."-- John T. Edge , au thor of The Potlikker Papers: A Food History of the Modern South Publisher Marketing : The New York Times bestselling author of Napa tells the captivating story of how the Napa Valley region transformed into an extraordinary engine of commerce, glamour, and an outsized version of the American dream--and how it could be lost--in "a strong plea for responsible stewardship of the land" ( Kirkus Reviews ).

Format: Paperback | Pages: 336 | Publication Date: 2019-04-16