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One Life at a Time, Please - by Edward Abbey (Paperback)
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- From stories about cattlemen, fellow critics, his beloved desert, cities, and technocrats to thoughts on sin and redemption, this is one of our most treasured writers at the height of his powers in One Life at a Time, Please.Edward Abbey died in 1989--too soon, some said.
- About the Author: Edward Abbey was born in Home, Pennsylvania in 1927 and died on March 14, 1989 in Tucson.
- 225 Pages
- Biography + Autobiography, Literary Figures
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About the Book
Warhorse, gadfly, storyteller, naturalist--there is no simple category to contain the vibrant prose voice of Edward Abbey. And this snappy collection of es says displays the author of Desert Solitaire and The Monkey-Wrench Gang at the height of his curmudgeonry.Book Synopsis
From stories about cattlemen, fellow critics, his beloved desert, cities, and technocrats to thoughts on sin and redemption, this is one of our most treasured writers at the height of his powers in One Life at a Time, Please.
Edward Abbey died in 1989--too soon, some said. "And where have the years gone?" Abbey wrote, "why, into the usual vices of the romantic realist: into sloth and melancholy, love and marriage and the begetting of children, into the strenuous maneuvers of earning a living without living to earn, into travel and play and music and drink and talk and laughter, into saving the world--but saving the world was only a hobby. Into watching cloud formations float across our planetary skies. But mostly into sloth and melancholy. And I don't regret a moment of it."
Review Quotes
"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. Alternatingly misanthropic and sentimental, engaged and hilarious, it is the voice of a full-blooded man airing his passions.-- Peter Carson, People magazine.
About the Author
Edward Abbey was born in Home, Pennsylvania in 1927 and died on March 14, 1989 in Tucson. Among his works are A Voice Crying in the Wilderness and Confessions of a Barbarian.