America's Most Alarming Writer: Essays on the Life and Work of Charles Bowden
Broyles, Bill and Bruce J. Dinges (eds.)
Language: English
Published by University of Texas Press, Austin, 2019
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337 pp., incl. index. Near-pristine copy of this celebration of the great Arizona writer. *Stated first edition.* [For contributors, see photos of TOC.] All but 'as-new', save only a couple of bumps to lower edge of front board. Unmarked within; no signs of provenance, use, or wear. DJ is NF; apparent stains are an intentional artifact of design by the Press, but there is mild rippling at the tail of front portion, beneath portrait; mylar covered. Jacket copy: "Part revelation, part critical assessment, the fifty essays in this collection span the decades from Bowden's rise as an investigative journalist through his years as a singular voice of unflinching honesty about natural history, climate change, globalization, drugs, and violence.".
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- Title
- America's Most Alarming Writer: Essays on the Life and Work of Charles Bowden
- Author
- Broyles, Bill and Bruce J. Dinges (eds.)
- Publisher
- University of Texas Press, Austin
- Publication year
- 2019
- Condition
- Fine
- Dust jacket
- Near Fine
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1477319905
- ISBN 13
- 9781477319901
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Dimensions
- 5.9 inches width by 8.75 inches height by 1.25 inches depth
- Seller catalogs
- Belles Lettres, Journalism
The author of more than twenty books and a revered contributor to numerous national publications, Charles Bowden (1945–2014) used his keen storyteller’s eye to reveal both the dark underbelly and the glorious determination of humanity, particularly in the borderlands between the United States and Mexico. In America’s Most Alarming Writer, key figures in his life—including his editors, collaborators, and other writers—deliver a literary wake for the man who inspired them throughout his forty-year career.
Part revelation, part critical assessment, the fifty essays in this collection span the decades from Bowden’s rise as an investigative journalist through his years as a singular voice of unflinching honesty about natural history, climate change, globalization, drugs, and violence. As the Chicago Tribune noted, “Bowden wrote with the intensity of Joan Didion, the voracious hunger of Henry Miller, the feral intelligence and irony of Hunter Thompson, and the wit and outrage of Edward Abbey.” An evocative complement to The Charles Bowden Reader, the essays and photographs in this homage brilliantly capture the spirit of a great writer with a quintessentially American vision. Bowden is the best writer you’ve (n)ever read.
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