The red caddy :: into the unknown with Edward Abbey /
A passionate advocate for preserving wilderness and fighting the bureaucratic and business forces that would destroy it, Edward Abbey (1927?1989) wrote fierce, polemical books such as Desert Solitaire and The Monkey Wrench Gang that continue to inspire environmental activists. In this eloquent memoi...
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| Zusammenfassung: | A passionate advocate for preserving wilderness and fighting the bureaucratic and business forces that would destroy it, Edward Abbey (1927?1989) wrote fierce, polemical books such as Desert Solitaire and The Monkey Wrench Gang that continue to inspire environmental activists. In this eloquent memoir, his friend and fellow desert rat Charles Bowden reflects on Abbey the man and the writer, offering up thought-provoking, contrarian views of the writing life, literary reputations, and the perverse need of critics to sum up "what he really meant and whether any of it was truly up to snuff." The Red Caddy is the first literary biography of Abbey in a generation. Refusing to turn him into a desert guru, Bowden instead recalls the wild man in a red Cadillac convertible for whom liberty was life. He describes how Desert Solitaire paradoxically "launched thousands of maniacs into the empty ground" that Abbey wanted to protect, while sealing his literary reputation and overshadowing the novels that Abbey considered his best books. Bowden also skewers the cottage industry that has grown up around Abbey?s writing, smoothing off its rougher (racist, sexist) edges while seeking "anecdotes, little intimacies . . . pieces of the True Beer Can or True Old Pickup Truck." Asserting that the real essence of Abbey will always remain unknown and unknowable, The Red Caddy still catches gleams of "the fire that from time to time causes a life to become a conflagration." |
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| spelling | Bowden, Charles, 1945-2014, author. https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJjddFthQFHdMK96jDwDMP http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81090470 The red caddy : into the unknown with Edward Abbey / Charles Bowden ; foreword by Luis Alberto Urrea. First edition. Austin : University of Texas Press, 2018. 1 online resource text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Vendor-supplied metadata. Intro; Foreword. The License Plate Said â#x80;#x9C;Haydukeâ#x80;#x9D;: Chuck Bowden and the Red Cadillac. A Memory by Luis Alberto Urrea; drive, he said; Hold Harmless Agreement: warning, vehicle not equipped with seat belts or air bags; cruise control setting; AAA Route Guide; Acknowledgments; Sources for Quotes. A passionate advocate for preserving wilderness and fighting the bureaucratic and business forces that would destroy it, Edward Abbey (1927?1989) wrote fierce, polemical books such as Desert Solitaire and The Monkey Wrench Gang that continue to inspire environmental activists. In this eloquent memoir, his friend and fellow desert rat Charles Bowden reflects on Abbey the man and the writer, offering up thought-provoking, contrarian views of the writing life, literary reputations, and the perverse need of critics to sum up "what he really meant and whether any of it was truly up to snuff." The Red Caddy is the first literary biography of Abbey in a generation. Refusing to turn him into a desert guru, Bowden instead recalls the wild man in a red Cadillac convertible for whom liberty was life. He describes how Desert Solitaire paradoxically "launched thousands of maniacs into the empty ground" that Abbey wanted to protect, while sealing his literary reputation and overshadowing the novels that Abbey considered his best books. Bowden also skewers the cottage industry that has grown up around Abbey?s writing, smoothing off its rougher (racist, sexist) edges while seeking "anecdotes, little intimacies . . . pieces of the True Beer Can or True Old Pickup Truck." Asserting that the real essence of Abbey will always remain unknown and unknowable, The Red Caddy still catches gleams of "the fire that from time to time causes a life to become a conflagration." Abbey, Edward, 1927-1989. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n78093802 Abbey, Edward, 1927-1989 fast https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJfmmwPh7JCHXGgtTG8DMP Authors, American 20th century Biography. Novelists, American 20th century Biography. Environmentalists United States Biography. Écrivains américains 20e siècle Biographies. Romanciers américains 20e siècle Biographies. LITERARY CRITICISM American General. bisacsh Authors, American fast Environmentalists fast Novelists, American fast United States fast https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJtxgQXMWqmjMjjwXRHgrq 1900-1999 fast Electronic books. Biography https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D019215 Biographies fast Biographies. lcgft http://id.loc.gov/authorities/genreForms/gf2014026049 Biographies. rvmgf Urrea, Luis Alberto, writer of supplementary textual content. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n92083371 has work: The red caddy (Text) https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PCGTP9xmFCgDVCRR4dqpdHy https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/ontology/hasWork Print version: Bowden, Charles, 1945-2014. Red caddy. First edition. Austin : University of Texas Press, 2018 1477322337 9781477322338 (OCoLC)1151888615 FWS01 ZDB-4-EBA FWS_PDA_EBA https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=1727916 Volltext CBO01 ZDB-4-EBA FWS_PDA_EBA https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=1727916 Volltext |
| spellingShingle | Bowden, Charles, 1945-2014 The red caddy : into the unknown with Edward Abbey / Intro; Foreword. The License Plate Said â#x80;#x9C;Haydukeâ#x80;#x9D;: Chuck Bowden and the Red Cadillac. A Memory by Luis Alberto Urrea; drive, he said; Hold Harmless Agreement: warning, vehicle not equipped with seat belts or air bags; cruise control setting; AAA Route Guide; Acknowledgments; Sources for Quotes. Abbey, Edward, 1927-1989. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n78093802 Abbey, Edward, 1927-1989 fast https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJfmmwPh7JCHXGgtTG8DMP Authors, American 20th century Biography. Novelists, American 20th century Biography. Environmentalists United States Biography. Écrivains américains 20e siècle Biographies. Romanciers américains 20e siècle Biographies. LITERARY CRITICISM American General. bisacsh Authors, American fast Environmentalists fast Novelists, American fast |
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| title | The red caddy : into the unknown with Edward Abbey / |
| title_auth | The red caddy : into the unknown with Edward Abbey / |
| title_exact_search | The red caddy : into the unknown with Edward Abbey / |
| title_full | The red caddy : into the unknown with Edward Abbey / Charles Bowden ; foreword by Luis Alberto Urrea. |
| title_fullStr | The red caddy : into the unknown with Edward Abbey / Charles Bowden ; foreword by Luis Alberto Urrea. |
| title_full_unstemmed | The red caddy : into the unknown with Edward Abbey / Charles Bowden ; foreword by Luis Alberto Urrea. |
| title_short | The red caddy : |
| title_sort | red caddy into the unknown with edward abbey |
| title_sub | into the unknown with Edward Abbey / |
| topic | Abbey, Edward, 1927-1989. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n78093802 Abbey, Edward, 1927-1989 fast https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJfmmwPh7JCHXGgtTG8DMP Authors, American 20th century Biography. Novelists, American 20th century Biography. Environmentalists United States Biography. Écrivains américains 20e siècle Biographies. Romanciers américains 20e siècle Biographies. LITERARY CRITICISM American General. bisacsh Authors, American fast Environmentalists fast Novelists, American fast |
| topic_facet | Abbey, Edward, 1927-1989. Abbey, Edward, 1927-1989 Authors, American 20th century Biography. Novelists, American 20th century Biography. Environmentalists United States Biography. Écrivains américains 20e siècle Biographies. Romanciers américains 20e siècle Biographies. LITERARY CRITICISM American General. Authors, American Environmentalists Novelists, American United States Electronic books. Biography Biographies Biographies. |
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