The Red Caddy : : Into the Unknown with Edward Abbey / / Charles Bowden.
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 memoi...
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Bowden, Charles, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut The Red Caddy : Into the Unknown with Edward Abbey / Charles Bowden. Austin : University of Texas Press, [2022] ©2018 1 online resource (120 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Foreword The License Plate Said “Hayduke”: Chuck Bowden and the Red Cadillac -- HOLD HARMLESS AGREEMENT: warning, vehicle not equipped with seat belts or air bags -- Cruise control setting -- AAA Route Guide -- Acknowledgments -- Sources for Quotes restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star 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.” Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Apr 2024) Authors, American 20th century Biography. Environmentalists United States Biography. Novelists, American 20th century Biography. BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General. bisacsh Urrea, Luis Alberto, contributor. ctb https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press Complete eBook-Package 2018 9783110745306 https://doi.org/10.7560/315798 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781477315804 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781477315804/original |
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