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Good News - by Edward Abbey (Paperback)

Good News - by  Edward Abbey (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Jack, an old man in search of his son, and Sam, a Harvard-educated Indian, face the dictator and his nasty band of killers who are taking over the South.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>In <i>Good News</i>, 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 of settler, whites 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 remnants of the power elite are girding their armed forces to re-impose 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. <p/> With this boldly satirical imaginary world, Abbey asks us to look around and take stock of what we value--before it is too late.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"Abbey's unique prose voice... is the voice of a full-blooded man airing his passions... alternately misanthropic and sentimental, enraged and hilarious."--<b><i>People</i></b> <p/> "The man, quite simply, is a master."--<b><i>The Bloomsbury Review</i></b> <p/> "A record as important and lovely as Muir's or Thoreau's."--<b><i>New York Post</i></b> <p/> "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."--<b><i>The Denver Post</i></b> <p/> "Abbey is a gadfly with a stinger like a scorpion."--<b>Wallace Stegner</b> <p/> "In his own inimitable fashion, Abbey prevails among the scant handful of our best and brightest fresh-air scribes."--<b><i>Chicago Sun-Times</i></b><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Edward Abbey</b>, a self-proclaimed "agrarian anarchist," was hailed as the "Thoreau of the American West." Known nationally as a champion of the individual and one of this country's foremost defenders of the natural environment, he was the author of twenty books, both fiction and nonfiction, including <i>Desert Solitaire, The Monkey Wrench Gang, </i>and <i>The Journey Home. </i>In 1989, at the age of sixty-two, Edward Abbey died in Oracle, Arizona.

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