Mezcal (Paperback)

Praise for Mezcal: "Mezcal is also a lyrical meditation upon the ultimate strength of the land, specifically the desert Southwest, and how that land prevails and endures despite every effort of modern industry and development to rape and savage it in the name of progress. Mezcal lingers in the mind as only the very best books manage to do."-Harry Crews "The author . . . excavates his own tormented life-and its relation to the land he loves-in a series of powerful, imagistic autobiographical essays. Like the desert he cherishes, this memoir is harsh yet lovely, full of sour self-truth. . . . A potent presentation of the wounds of one man's life, packed with indelible impressions; but there's little healing here, making this a bitter if beautiful read."-Kirkus Review "In Mezcal . . . Bowden drops the journalistic veil, exploring the ecology of his interior landscape at least as thoroughly as the changing scenery that surrounds him. . . . Others-Aldo Leopold, Edward Abbey-have already staked inviolate claims on the Southwestern deserts. But Bowden owns the complex terrain where, like a mezcal-inspired mirage, the Sonoran sun-belt overlaps the gray convolutions of the American mind."-Los Angeles Times

General

Imprint:	University Of Texas Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	May 2020
First published:	1988
Authors:	Charles Bowden
Dimensions:	216 x 140 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	168
ISBN-13:	978-1-4773-2024-2
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Essays, journals, letters & other prose works > General
LSN:	1-4773-2024-5
Barcode:	9781477320242

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