Palm Springs, California (Google Maps ⧉, OpenStreetMap ⧉)

"Either there were the sulky young men BZ met in places like Acapulco and Kitzbühel and Tangier or there were Helene’s friends, the women with whom she shopped and planned restorative weeks at Palm Springs and La Costa, the women with the silk Pucci shirts and the periodically tightened eye lines and the husbands on perpetual location."

"…’Come on, man, I’m late for a meeting in Palm Springs.’"

"“Where the hell were you?” “I can’t tell you. Just like you couldn’t tell me.” “Angel.” “Phoenix. Palm Springs.” “With him?” “No.”"

"She had to be headed to Palm Springs."

"Her husband Gilbert worked security at the Agua Caliente casino in Palm Springs."

"Besieging the rich at Palm Springs, hiking or driving with great anguish up and over the Cajon Pass, with apparently not the slightest knowledge that what they would find on the other side of the mountains was miles of desert waste..."

"He takes out a gold spoon, does his line, and then suggests, 'Why don’t we go to Palm Springs for a week while you’re back,' he suggests."

"He’s completely tan and has had a hair transplant in Palm Springs, two weeks ago, and he has pretty much a full head of blondish hair."

"Instead I drove out to Palm Springs alone and listened to a lot of old tapes I used to like but didn’t much anymore"

"When Blair muttered one night, while we sat on opposite sides of the living room, “We should have gone to Palm Springs,” I knew then that it was time to leave."

"My father calls his father up in Palm Springs and we all wish him a Merry Christmas."

"Christmas in Palm Springs. It was always hot. Even if it was raining, it was still hot."

"couple of others from a party in Palm Springs;"

"When I was fifteen and first learned how to drive, in Palm Springs, I’d take my father’s car while my parents were asleep and my sisters and I would drive around the desert, in the middle of the night, Fleetwood Mac or Eagles on, loud, top down, hot winds blowing, making the palm trees bend, silent."

"It was my grandfather’s birthday and we had been in Palm Springs for close to two months; for too long."

"…Trent’s house, but Trent, I remember, is in Palm Springs, so I drive to Rip’s place…"

"so I call Trent’s apartment and Chris answers and tells me that Trent’s still in Palm Springs and then asks if I know anyone who has any meth."

"“So, is Julian in Palm Springs?” I ask him."

"Everybody was very tired of Palm Springs."

"He would come down to Palm Springs on weekends and have these parties in the house on the desert."

"Rip mentioned something about going to Palm Springs one night before I left and I nodded, giving in to the heat."

"I told her to come to Palm Springs with me."

"I remember the first time we made love, in the house in Palm Springs, her body tan and wet, lying against cool, white sheets."