The
Best of Edward Abbey by Edward
Abbey.
One of the most popular and celebrated
contemporary authors selects 31 of his favorite pieces--both
fiction and nonfiction--including selections from such
bestsellers as Desert
Solitaire, The Brave
Cowboy, The Monkey
Wrench Gang, Abbey's
Road, Down the
River, The Journey
Home, and
more. Includes 11 line drawings....
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Coyote
in the Maze : Tracking Edward Abbey in a World of Words
by Peter Quigley (Editor), Jim Stiles (Photographer), stewa
Cassidy
The works of Edward Abbey have been well
known to general readers since the 1960s. Now an increasing
interest in nature and environmental writing has focused the
attention of a new generation of readers on classics such as Desert
Solitaire
and The Monkey Wrench Gang. This volume,
the first comprehensive collection of literary criticism devoted
to Abbey's challenging corpus of fiction and nonfiction,
couldn't be more timely or significant. From the perspective of
his scholarly critics in Western American literature and
environmental studies Ed Abbey is, in a word, a problem. As
Peter Quigley, the volume editor comments, "The title of
this collection refers to a number of references within Abbey's
work. The maze is a place of myriad canyons, of wonder, and a
place where the desperadoes in The Monkey Wrench Gang
could lose the authorities. The coyote refers to the slippery
figure in Native American myth, a figure, known to Abbey, that
was always in between definition and could slip out of every
trap set to catch him." In this long-awaited anthology, 18
intrepid scholars have chosen to ignore the coyote's reputation,
tracking Abbey in one masterful and illuminating essay after
another through the canyons of anarchist politics, philosophy,
feminist literary criticism, post-structuralism, and rhetoric,
as well as nature and environmental theory and activism.
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