Good News: A Novel (Plume) - Softcover

Abbey, Edward

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0452265657 ISBN 13: 9780452265653

Verlag: Penguin Publishing Group, 1991

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Book by Abbey Edward

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"Abbey's unique prose voice... is the voice of a full-blooded man airing his passions... alternately misanthropic and sentimental, enraged and hilarious."--People "The man, quite simply, is a master."--The Bloomsbury Review "A record as important and lovely as Muir's or Thoreau's."--New York Post "One of our foremost Western essayists and novelists. A militant conservationist, he has attracted a large following--not only within the ranks of Sierra Club enthusiasts and backpackers, but also among armchair appreciators of good writing. What always made his work doubly interesting is the sense of a true maverick spirit at large--a kind of spirit not imitable, limited only to the highest class of literary outlaws."--The Denver Post "Abbey is a gadfly with a stinger like a scorpion."--Wallace Stegner "In his own inimitable fashion, Abbey prevails among the scant handful of our best and brightest fresh-air scribes."--Chicago Sun-Times

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In "Good News," Edward Abbey's acclaimed underground classic, the West is wild again. American civilization as the twentieth century knew it has crumbled. In the great Southwest, a new breed or settler, white and Indians together, is creating a new way of life in the wilderness - a pastoral economy - with skills and savvy resurrected from the pre-industrial past. Meanwhile, in a last surviving bastion of urban life, the remnats of the power elite are girding their armed forces to reimpose the old order. This is a land of horses and motorcycles, high-tech weaponry and primitive courage, and the struggle for the American future is mounting in intensity. No quarter is asked or given, and the outcome hangs in perilous balance against a background of magnificent nature and eternal human verities.

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• Verlag: Penguin Publishing Group
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0452265657
• ISBN 13: 9780452265653
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 256