false 6681453 0979019876 2 1 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1249594569m/6681453.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6681453-the-grand-piano-8 3009562 Lyn Hejinian et al. 2 1 5 1 false Tue Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 07 16:27:30 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 07 16:41:49 -0700 2009 Grand Pianos in the way I love all autobiographies, where nostalgia and history nuzzle and fuse. Lots of solid poetic information, but I’m guilty of treating each installment as economic porn—a fantasy of the Bay Area and surrounding U.S. before Reagan, tech, the homeless, home prices, and unbridled free markets turned it into the diminished but still beautiful Bohemia I knew, 1986-2006. Folks, we missed the party, but it’s structure was against us, and there’s tactical comfort in that. ]]>