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The Red Caddy - Into the Unknown with Edward Abbey (Paperback)
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The Red Caddy - Into the Unknown with Edward Abbey (Paperback)
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List price R498
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Discovery Miles 2 620
You Save R236 (47%)
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A passionate advocate for preserving wilderness and fighting the
bureaucratic and business forces that would destroy it, Edward
Abbey (1927-1989) wrote fierce, polemical books such as Desert
Solitaire and The Monkey Wrench Gang that continue to inspire
environmental activists. In this eloquent memoir, his friend and
fellow desert rat Charles Bowden reflects on Abbey the man and the
writer, offering up thought-provoking, contrarian views of the
writing life, literary reputations, and the perverse need of
critics to sum up "what he really meant and whether any of it was
truly up to snuff." The Red Caddy is the first literary biography
of Abbey in a generation. Refusing to turn him into a desert guru,
Bowden instead recalls the wild man in a red Cadillac convertible
for whom liberty was life. He describes how Desert Solitaire
paradoxically "launched thousands of maniacs into the empty ground"
that Abbey wanted to protect, while sealing his literary reputation
and overshadowing the novels that Abbey considered his best books.
Bowden also skewers the cottage industry that has grown up around
Abbey's writing, smoothing off its rougher (racist, sexist) edges
while seeking "anecdotes, little intimacies . . . pieces of the
True Beer Can or True Old Pickup Truck." Asserting that the real
essence of Abbey will always remain unknown and unknowable, The Red
Caddy still catches gleams of "the fire that from time to time
causes a life to become a conflagration."
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