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Chargement... Blue Desert (1986)par Charles Bowden
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. Several of the pieces are quite good, but most are pretty ordinary. The best pieces I thought fell into the first category of "Beasts". ( ) This collection of short stories were written by Bowden during his time at the Tucson Citizen. Bowden tries to explain what he sees Arizona becoming with the current influx of residents from other parts of the world. Bowden tries to explain the connection with the land that is slowly slipping away from every resident of Arizona. Unfortunately, Bowden also goes on about his divorce and his work history - both of which only distract from the overall message of the book. Bowden has a point that the West is slowly being lost, but that point is unfortunately muddled and thus ineffective. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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 Cantú 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. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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