America's Most Alarming Writer: Essays on the Life and Work of Charles Bowden

Broyles, Bill and Bruce J. Dinges (eds.)

ISBN 10: 1477319905 / ISBN 13: 9781477319901

Published by University of Texas Press, Austin, 2019

About this Item

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.".

Seller Inventory # PS-260101

Bibliographic Details

• Title: America's Most Alarming Writer: Essays on the Life and Work of Charles Bowden
• Publisher: University of Texas Press, Austin
• Publication Date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1477319905
• ISBN 13: 9781477319901
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Dimensions: 5.9W x 8.75H x 1.25D inches 5.9 inches width by 8.75 inches height by 1.25 inches depth
• Seller catalogs:
  • Journalism
  • Belles Lettres

About this title

Synopsis

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.

About the Author

Bill Broyles, a research associate at the University of Arizona’s Southwest Center, is coauthor of Among Unknown Tribes, Desert Duty, and Sunshot. Bruce J. Dinges is retired director of publications and editor of the Arizona Historical Society’s Journal of Arizona History. He is the author of numerous articles and editor of several books on southwestern and Civil War history.