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Edward Abbey

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About Me

Why book reviewers hate my books:Because the books are really no good? Perhaps. But I think I've got a better explanation. Almost all reviewers, these days, are members of and adherents to some anxious particular sect or faction. I.e., they are lesbians and New Agers or fem-libbers or (even worse) male fem-libbers or technophiles or self-hating white liberals or right wing conservatives or Growth maniacs or Negroes or female Negroes or Third-World lesbian militant Negro poetesses or closet Marxists (Marxoids) or futurologists or academical specialists or Chicano idealogues or ballerinas or Kowboy Kultists or Kerouac Kultists or Henry James Minimalist Perfectionists or one-tenth Chippewa "Native American" Indians or at very least and all-inclusive Official Chickenshit Correct-Thinking Liberals etc. etc.As such, any member of any one of those majority minorities is going to find for certain a few remarks in any of my books that will offend/enrage s/he" to the marrow, leading inevitably in turn, on the part of such sectarian book reviewers, to a denunciation not merely of the offending passage, but of the entire book, and not merely of the book, but of the author too.-Edward Abbey March 2, 1989

My Interests

Books:

Jonathan Troy 1954 (novel) The Brave Cowboy 1956 (novel) Fire on the Mountain 1962 (novel) Desert Solitaire 1968 (novel) Appalacian Wilderness 1970 (travel) Black Sun 1971 (novel) Slickrock 1971 (travel) Cactus Country 1973 (essays) The Monkey Wrench Gang 1975 (novel) The Journey Home 1977 (essays) The Hidden Canyon 1977 (travel) Abbey's Road 1979 (essays) Desert Images 1979 (essays) Good News 1980 (novel) Down the River 1982 (essays) In Praise of Mountain Lions 1984 (essays) Beyond the Wall 1984 (essays) Slumgullion Stew: An Abbey Reader 1984 (anthology) The Best of Edward Abbey 1984 (anthology) One Life at a Time, Please 1988 (essays) The Fool's Progress 1988 (novel) Hayduke lives 1989 (novel)