Los Angeles County, California (Google Maps ⧉, OpenStreetMap ⧉)
Referenced In
Play It As It Lays
by Joan Didion"He was going to give her the telephone number of the only man in Los Angeles County who did clean work."
Play It As It Lays
by Joan Didion"In that way I resemble the only man in Los Angeles County who does clean work."
The Barbarian Nurseries
by Héctor Tobar"He passed Disneyland, left Orange County and entered Los Angeles County at La Habra."
The Barbarian Nurseries
by Héctor Tobar"“There’s a red-flag warning in the canyons of Los Angeles and Orange counties, which means acute fire danger …”"
Parable of the Sower
by Octavia Butler"They're educated people who don't want to live in thespreadi ngchaosoftherestofLosAngelesCounty."
The Tortilla Curtain
by T.C. Boyle"In a quieter moment at the bar, Delaney noted, “The device was on loan from the Los Angeles County Electronic Monitoring Service house‐arrest program, and he would be wearing it, night and day, for the next three years.”"
The Tortilla Curtain
by T.C. Boyle"Of course, a simpler solution (the one most homeowners resort to when one of these “brush wolves” invades the sanctum sanctorum of their fenced-in yard) is to call in the Los Angeles County Animal Control Department, which traps and euthanizes about 100 coyotes a year."
The Tortilla Curtain
by T.C. Boyle"I know it wasn’t for you, but if I could have had my choice of any house in all of Los Angeles County, that would have been it."
The Mars Room
by Rachel Kushner"Slippers that said LA County on the side of each shoe."
The Sellout
by Paul Beatty"…that two‐acre, just‐this‐side‐of‐lunar‐surface fertile parcel of land in the most infamous ghetto in Los Angeles County…"
The Sellout
by Paul Beatty"When the housing boom hit in the early part of the century, many moderate‐income neighborhoods in Los Angeles County underwent real estate makeovers."
The Sellout
by Paul Beatty"At 4,084 square miles, much of Los Angeles County, like the ocean floor, remains in large part unexplored."
The Sellout
by Paul Beatty"There are more cars in Los Angeles County than in any other city in the world."
The Sellout
by Paul Beatty"Eager to show me some newly disambiguated entry in an online encyclopedia written by some anonymous scholar: Dickens is an unincorporated city in southwest Los Angeles County."
The Sellout
by Paul Beatty"Between the police and the gangs, navigating the streets of any neighborhood in L.A. County, especially any section not familiar with you, can be dangerous. You just never know when you’re going to get rolled up on for being or wearing the wrong color."