Trespass: Living at the Edge of the Promised Land

"Trespass might as well be Desert Solitaire's literary heir . . . It's hard to imagine a...
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Author: Amy Irvine
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Trespass: Living at the Edge of the Promised Land by Irvine, Amy

Trespass: Living at the Edge of the Promised Land

$51.23

Trespass: Living at the Edge of the Promised Land

$51.23
Author: Amy Irvine
Format: Paperback
Language: English

"Trespass might as well be Desert Solitaire's literary heir . . . It's hard to imagine a personal history more transporting that this one."--Judith Lewis, Los Angels Times Book Review

Trespass is the story of one woman's struggle to gain footing in inhospitable territory. A wilderness activist and apostate Mormon, Amy Irvine sought respite in the desert outback of southern Utah's red-rock country after her father's suicide, only to find out just how much of an interloper she was among her own people. But more than simply an exploration of personal loss, Trespass is an elegy for a dying world, for the ruin of one of our most beloved and unique desert landscapes and for our vanishing connection to it. Fearing what her father's fate might somehow portend for her, Irvine retreated into the remote recesses of the Colorado Plateau--home not only to the world's most renowned national parks but also to a rugged brand of cowboy Mormonism that stands in defiant contrast to the world at large. Her story is one of ruin and restoration, of learning to live among people who fear the wilderness the way they fear the devil and how that fear fuels an antagonism toward environmental concerns that pervades the region. At the same time, Irvine mourns her own loss of wildness and disconnection from spirituality, while ultimately discovering that the provinces of nature and faith are not as distinct as she once might have believed.



Author: Amy Irvine
Publisher: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3pl
Published: 03/31/2009
Pages: 378
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.88lbs
Size: 7.94h x 5.06w x 0.97d
ISBN: 9780865477452


Review Citation(s):
New York Times Book Review 05/10/2009 pg. 28

About the Author

Formerly a nationally ranked competitive rock climber, Amy Irvine was for five years the development director at the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance.




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