The Last Cheater's Waltz: Beauty and Violence in the Desert Southwest
In this abundant space and isolation, the energy lords extract their bounty of natural resources, and the curators of mass destruction once mined their egregious weapons and reckless acts. It is a land of absolutes, of passion and indifference, lush textures and inscrutable tensions. Here violence can push beauty to the edge of a razor blade. . . . Thus Ellen Meloy describes a corner of desert hard by the San Juan River in southeastern Utah, a place long forsaken as implausible and impassable, of little use or value--a place that she calls home. Despite twenty years of carefully nurtured intimacy with this red-rock landscape, Meloy finds hers…
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- ISBN: 978-0-8165-2153-1
- EAN: 9780816521531
- Produktnummer: 9293692
- Verlag: Univ Of Arizona Pr
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2000
- Seitenangabe: 239 S.
- Masse: H20.8 cm x B14.2 cm x D1.4 cm 277 g
- Gewicht: 277
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Ellen Meloy is also the author of The Anthropology of Turquoise
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