Available again in paperback, Golden Days is a major novel from one of the most provocative voices on the American literary scene. Linking the recent past with an imagined future, Carolyn See captures life in Los Angeles in the 70s and 80s. This marvelously imaginative, hilarious, and original work offers fresh insights into the way we were, the way we are, and the way we could end up.

Carolyn See, the author of Dreaming: Hard Luck and Good Times in America (California, 1996) and five novels, is a book reviewer for The Washington Post and an adjunct professor of English at University of California, Los Angeles.

"If an inspirational novel about nuclear war seems a bit, well, perverse, that's only the beginning (of the end, of course). And besides, as Carolyn See asks in this remarkable book, what could be more perverse than dropping the bomb in the first place? . . . In its weird way, this may be the most life-affirming novel I've ever read."—Carol Sternhell, New York Times Book Review

"This author's passionate purpose is to cry stop to the nuclear buildup, the immense, out-of-control playground fight that starts with nothing and can't stop till blood is spilled and something has 'won.' . . . This is a very, very important book."—Nora Johnson, Los Angeles Times Book Review

"An adventuresome blend of feminist fiction and nuclear apocalypse fantasy set in California."—R. Z. Sheppard, Time