A collection of "failed mystics, rootless sun-worshipers, exiles from the harsher realities of a different civilization to the east of the San Gabriel mountains," are caught in the moral and physical decay of Los Angeles. Dust jacket illustration by Paul Bacon. Three small splash-soil marks faintly to top edge of front cover, another fainter one to top edge of back cover, mild general wear, in rubbed dust jacket w/impressions, moderate edgewear, some flaking to top spine, faint stains to reverse corresponding to splash-soil on covers.