San Fernando Valley, Los Angeles, California (Google Maps ⧉, OpenStreetMap ⧉)
Referenced In
State of Fear
by Michael Crichton"Ted Bradley, sitting at his desk in his house in the San Fernando Valley."
Ask The Dust
by John Fante"On the other side lay the flat plain of the San Fernando Valley."
Golden Days
by Carolyn See"I drove with the kids one dreadful morning into the San Fernando Valley and felt that if there had to be a nuclear war, certainly it might do some good in this area."
Golden Days
by Carolyn See"On one cliff you might see great grim stretches of that modern midden the San Fernando Valley, and on another rocky outcropping you might climb…"
Golden Days
by Carolyn See"They lived in a little house in the Silver Lake district of Los Angeles—a place you never used to read about or hear about, but it was there, west of downtown, east of Hollywood, north of Inglewood, south of the San Fernando Valley, a place with no borders and little character."
The Tortilla Curtain
by T.C. Boyle"To the north and east lay the San Fernando Valley, a single endless plane of parallel boulevards, houses, mini‐malls and streetlights."
The Tortilla Curtain
by T.C. Boyle"one coyote, who makes his living on the fringes of my community high in the hills above Topanga Creek and the San Fernando Valley, has learned to simply chew his way through the plastic irrigation pipes whenever he wants a drink."
Less Than Zero
by Bret Easton Ellis"as I press the gate opener, I look out over the Valley and watch the beginning of another day"
Less Than Zero
by Bret Easton Ellis"“Oh yeah, do you?” ... then, “Jesus, I hate the fucking Valley,” and he digs into his pocket..."
Less Than Zero
by Bret Easton Ellis"so Trent’s going to live with someone in the Valley for a couple of days"
Less Than Zero
by Bret Easton Ellis"Alana’s standing by the window smoking a cigarette and looking out over the Valley."
The Mars Room
by Rachel Kushner"This girl had a nice apartment because at home in LA she made great money at the clubs in the San Fernando Valley."
The Sellout
by Paul Beatty"And on hot 104-degree San Fernando Valley days, when we’re carrying their groceries to their cars or stuffing their mailboxes with bills, they turn and say, “Too many Mexicans,” a tacit agreement between aggrieved strangers..."
The Sellout
by Paul Beatty"Sitting just off Mulholland Drive, on the crest overlooking the San Fernando Valley"
The Tortilla Curtain
by T.C. Boyle"If you wanted to paint your house sky-blue or Provencal-pink with lime-green shutters, you were perfectly welcome to move into the San Fernando Valley or to Santa Monica or anywhere else you chose, but if you bought into Arroyo Blanco Estates, your house would be white and your roof orange."
The Tortilla Curtain
by T.C. Boyle"When they reached the top and the San Fernando Valley opened up beneath them like an enormous glittering fan, she had to stop and catch her breath."