In the promised land of the Sunbelt, people come by the thousands
to escape the crush of Eastern cities and end up duplicating the
very world they have fled. Can the land remain unchanged? In Blue
Desert, Charles Bowden presents a view of the Southwest that seeks
to measure how rapid growth has taken its toll on the land. Writing
with a reporter's objectivity and a desert rat's passion, Bowden
takes us into the streets as well as the desert to depict not a
fragile environment but the unavoidable reality of abuse,
exploitation, and human cruelty. Blue Desert shows us the Sunbelt's
darker side as it has developed in recent times-where "the land
always makes promises of aching beauty and the people always fail
the land"-and defies us to ignore it. Blue Desert has no
boundaries, no terrain, no topographical coordinates; it is a state
of mind inescapable to one who sees change and knows that nothing
can be done to stop it.
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