Red Line - Hardcover

Bowden, Charles

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0393027597 ISBN 13: 9780393027594

Publisher: W. W. Norton, 1989

Synopsis

An often surreal memoir retraces the path of the Gold Rush, stumbles upon a charismatic Arizona sage, and searches after a border-town drug dealer as it portrays an American Southwest on the verge of ruin

About this title

About the Author:

Author of many acclaimed books about the American Southwest and US-Mexico border issues, Charles Bowden (1945–2014) was a contributing editor for GQ, Harper’s, Esquire, and Mother Jones and also wrote for the New York Times Book Review, High Country News, and Aperture. His honors included a PEN First Amendment Award, Lannan Literary Award for Nonfiction, and the Sidney Hillman Award for outstanding journalism that fosters social and economic justice.

From Publishers Weekly:

The Southwest as portrayed in this Kerouac-esque odyssey betokening the death of the American frontier spirit is a landscape of broken dreams, violence, uprooted lives and fallen idols. Bowden ( Mezcal ), joined by a retired narcotics cop, sets out to investigate the murder of a Mexican drug dealer/hit-man outside Tucson. His obsessive, detective-like quest seems at least partly an evasion of personal problems--he has just fathered a baby out of wedlock. We meet real estate developers, sullen Indians, assorted castoffs, a Vietnam vet, a rogue archeologist and, through historical flashbacks, gold-crazed '49ers. Miles distant from tourist-poster images of the Sunbelt, this vista of narrow greed, diminished expectations and despoilation of nature sizzles with the harsh, unrelenting glare of a hyperrealist painting.
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About this edition

• Publisher: W. W. Norton
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0393027597
• ISBN 13: 9780393027594
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 202