Red Line - Couverture souple

Bowden, Charles

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1477316612 ISBN 13 : 9781477316610

Editeur : University of Texas Press, 2018

Synopsis

“At its best, Red Line can read like an original synthesis of Peter Matthiessen and William Burroughs . . . a brave and interesting book.”
-David Rieff, Los Angeles Times Book Review

“Charles Bowden’s Red Line is a look at America through the window of the southwest. His vision is as nasty, peculiar, brutal, as it is intriguing and, perhaps, accurate. Bowden offers consciousness rather than consolation, but in order to do anything about our nightmares we must take a cold look and Red Line casts the coldest eye in recent memory.”
-Jim Harrison

One of Charles Bowden's earliest books, Red Line powerfully conveys a desert civilization careening over the edge―and decaying at its center. Bowden's quest for the literal and figurative truth behind the assassination of a murderous border-town drug dealer becomes a meditation on the glories of the desert landscape, the squalors of the society that threatens it, and the contradictions inherent in trying to save it.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Author of many acclaimed books about the American Southwest and US-Mexico border issues, Charles Bowden (1945–2014) was a contributing editor for GQ, Harper’s, Esquire, and Mother Jones and also wrote for the New York Times Book Review, High Country News, and Aperture. His honors included a PEN First Amendment Award, Lannan Literary Award for Nonfiction, and the Sidney Hillman Award for outstanding journalism that fosters social and economic justice.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Texas Press
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1477316612
• ISBN 13: 9781477316610
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 216
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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