# Spirits of San Francisco: Voyages Through the Unknown City - Hardcover

by **Gary Kamiya** (Author), **Paul Madonna** (Illustrator)

**A _San Francisco Chronicle_ Bestseller**  
**A _Beat_ Most Anticipated Graphic Novel of Fall 2020**

**From two bestselling, prizewinning, and critically acclaimed contemporary chroniclers of San Francisco comes a rich, illustrated, idiosyncratic portrait of this great city.**

Gary Kamiya's _Cool Gray City of Love: 49 Views of San Francisco_ was a #1 bestseller and an award winner. Now he joins forces with celebrated, bestselling artist Paul Madonna to take a fresh look at this one-of-a-kind city. Marrying image and text in a way no book about this city has done before, Kamiya's captivating narratives accompany Madonna's masterful pen-and-ink drawings, breathing life into San Francisco sites both iconic and obscure.

Paul Madonna's atmospheric images will awe: be amazed by his astonishing wide-angle drawing for a jaw-dropping new perspective on the "crookedest street in the world." And Kamiya's engaging prose, accompanying each image, offers fascinating vignettes of this incredible city: witness his story of "Dumpville," the bizarre community that sprang up in the 19th century on top of a massive garbage dump.

Handsome and irresistible--much like the city it chronicles--_Spirits of San Francisco_ is both a visual feast and a detailed, personal, loving, informed portrait of a beloved city.

### Author Biography

**Gary Kamiya** is the author of the #1 San Francisco bestseller _Cool Gray City of Love: 49 Views of San Francisco_, which won the Northern California Book Award for Creative Nonfiction and is widely considered one of the best books ever written about San Francisco. He writes a very popular history column for the _San_ _Francisco Chronicle_. A co-founder of Salon.com and the former executive editor of _San Francisco_ magazine, Kamiya has been a fixture on the Bay Area literary scene for more than 30 years. He lives in San Francisco.

**Paul Madonna** is an award-winning artist and author. His popular series All Over Coffee ran in the _San Francisco Chronicle_ for twelve years and has been collected into two sui generis bestsellers, _All Over Coffee_ and _Everything is its own reward_. Paul is the creator of the Emit Hopper Mystery Series, and his unique brand of combining images and stories has been heralded as "an all new art form," celebrated internationally in galleries and museums as well as in print.

**Number of Pages:** 224

**Dimensions:** 0.9 x 9.3 x 6.3 IN

**Illustrated:** Yes

**Publication Date:** October 20, 2020

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