The acclaimed author “excavates his own tormented life—and its
relation to the land he loves—in a series of powerful, imagistic
autobiographical essays” (Kirkus Reviews). “Romping drunkenly
into Mexico, protesting the Vietnamese war at the University of
Wisconsin, marching on the capitol in Washington, hiking into the
Pinacate, returning to the family farm in Germantown, Iowa. These and
other scenes flash before the reader in Charles Bowden’s Mezcal, the
final piece of his Southwest trilogy . . . Although the book is
ostensibly autobiographical, Bowden’s overriding concern is with
trying to make sense of the Sunbelt Phenomena.” —Dick Kirkpatrick,
Western American Literature “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 “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, author of A Feast of Snakes
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ISBN
9781477320266
Publisert
2020
Utgiver
Vendor
University of Texas Press
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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