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Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 978-1-57131-285-3
Pages: 336
Publish Date: Dec, 2007
Genre: Nonfiction
Postcards from Ed
Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast
BY Edward Abbey, David Petersen
From the author of The Monkey Wrench Gang and Desert Solitaire, “Cactus” Ed Abbey’s Correspondence, now in paperback.
At once incendiary and insightful, cantankerous and profoundly perceptive, Edward Abbey (1927-1989) was a singular American writer and cult hero, as famous for books as he was for the prickly 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, convey the fullness of the man and reveal, along with his wisdom and savage wit, a tender personal side seldom seen before. For readers new to Abbey, this collection is an awe-inspiring introduction to the man and his works. And for devoted fans, the letters chronicle his evolution as an authentic American voice in the wilderness.
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Postcards from Ed
From the author of such famous/infamous books as The Monkey Wrench Gang and Desert Solitaire: “Cactus" Ed Abbey's correspondence.
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"Abbey's the original fly in the ointment. Give him money and prizes. Don't let anything happen to him."
—Thomas McGuane"Edward Abbey is the Thoreau of the American West."
—Washington Post"Abbey can attain a kind of glory in his writing. He takes scenes that have been well-traveled by other writers, and re-creates them as traditional American myths."
—The New York Times Book Review"We are living ... among punishments and ruins. For those who knows this, Edward Abbey's books remain an indispensable solace. His essays, and his novels, too, are 'antidotes to despair.'"
—Wendell Berry"What entertains many and exasperates others is Abbey's unique prose voice. Alternately misantrophic and sentimental, enraged and hilarious, it is the voice of a full-blooded man airing his passions."
—Peter Carlson, People"He is a national treasure."
—The Bloomsbury Review
