Blue Desert by Bowden, Charles
Blue Desert by Bowden, Charles

Blue Desert

Published in 1986, Blue Desert was Charles Bowden's third book-length work and takes place almost entirely in...
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Author: Charles Bowden
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Language: English
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Blue Desert by Bowden, Charles

Blue Desert

$64.57
Blue Desert by Bowden, Charles

Blue Desert

$64.57
Author: Charles Bowden
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description
Published in 1986, Blue Desert was Charles Bowden's third book-length work and takes place almost entirely in Arizona, revealing Bowden's growing and intense preoccupation with the state and what it represented as a symbol of America's "New West."

Bowden presents a view of the Southwest that measures how rapid growth takes its toll on the land. Writing with a reporter's objectivity and a desert rat's passion, Bowden offers us his trademarked craft and wit to take us into the streets as well as the desert to depict not a fragile environment but the unavoidable reality of abuse, exploitation, and human cruelty. Blue Desert shows us the darker side of development--where "the land always makes promises of aching beauty and the people always fail the land"--and defies us to ignore it.

In a thoughtful new foreword, Francisco Cant writes, "In Blue Desert, we follow Bowden in the processes of becoming. We see the version of Bowden that he would likely most want us to remember--someone who did their best to be an honest witness, someone who was haunted by modernity and his place in it, someone who grappled with his demons by gazing deeply into the desert." Blue Desert is a critical piece in the oeuvre of Charles Bowden, and it continues to remind readers of the cruelty and beauty of the world around us.

Author: Charles Bowden
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Published: 10/02/2018
Pages: 224
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.61lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9780816537914

About the Author
Charles Bowden (1945-2014) was the author of many acclaimed books about the American Southwest and U.S.-Mexico border issues. He was a contributing editor for GQ, Harper's, Esquire, and Mother Jones. His honors include a PEN First Amendment Award and the Lannan Literary Award for Nonfiction.

Francisco Cantú is the author of The Line Becomes a River: Dispatches from the Border. A former Fulbright fellow, he is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize and a 2017 Whiting Award.


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