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Postcards from Ed
Abbey, Edward. Ed(S): Petersen, David
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Paperback / so. Editor(s): Petersen, David. BIC Classification: BJ; DQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 142 x 22. Weight in Grams: 440.
“But hell, I do like to write letters. Much easier than writing books.” And write letters Edward Abbey—“the Thoreau of the American West” (Washington Post)—did. At once incendiary and insightful, cantankerous and profoundly perceptive, Abbey was a singular American writer and cult hero, as famous for books like Desert Solitaire and The Monkey Wrench Gang as he was infamous for the persona of “Cactus Ed.” A true iconoclast with a rich sense of humor, his polemics and salvos—Wallace Stegner once likened Abbey to the “stinger of a scorpion”—were not limited to any one arena. Abbey’s postcards and letters, legendary during his lifetime, ... Read more
“But hell, I do like to write letters. Much easier than writing books.” And write letters Edward Abbey—“the Thoreau of the American West” (Washington Post)—did. At once incendiary and insightful, cantankerous and profoundly perceptive, Abbey was a singular American writer and cult hero, as famous for books like Desert Solitaire and The Monkey Wrench Gang as he was infamous for the persona of “Cactus Ed.” A true iconoclast with a rich sense of humor, his polemics and salvos—Wallace Stegner once likened Abbey to the “stinger of a scorpion”—were not limited to any one arena. Abbey’s postcards and letters, legendary during his lifetime, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Milkweed Editions United States
Condition
New
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
Minneapolis, United States
ISBN
9781571312853
SKU
V9781571312853
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99-15
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