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Red Line
University of Texas Press, 2018 Paper: 978-1-4773-1661-0 | eISBN: 978-1-4773-1663-4 Library of Congress Classification F787.B69 2018 Dewey Decimal Classification 979
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
ABOUT THIS BOOK
“At its best, Red Line can read like an original synthesis of Peter Matthiessen and William Burroughs . . . a brave and interesting book.” “Charles Bowden’s Red Line is a look at America through the window of the southwest. His vision is as nasty, peculiar, brutal, as it is intriguing and, perhaps, accurate. Bowden offers consciousness rather than consolation, but in order to do anything about our nightmares we must take a cold look and Red Line casts the coldest eye in recent memory.” One of Charles Bowden’s earliest books, Red Line powerfully conveys a desert civilization careening over the edge—and decaying at its center. Bowden’s quest for the literal and figurative truth behind the assassination of a murderous border-town drug dealer becomes a meditation on the glories of the desert landscape, the squalors of the society that threatens it, and the contradictions inherent in trying to save it. See other books on: 1945-2014 | Bowden, Charles | Drug dealers | Red Line | Southwest, New See other titles from University of Texas Press |
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Red Line
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
University of Texas Press, 2018
Paper: 978-1-4773-1661-0
eISBN: 978-1-4773-1663-4
Paper: 978-1-4773-1661-0
eISBN: 978-1-4773-1663-4
“At its best, Red Line can read like an original synthesis of Peter Matthiessen and William Burroughs . . . a brave and interesting book.”
—David Rieff, Los Angeles Times Book Review
“Charles Bowden’s Red Line is a look at America through the window of the southwest. His vision is as nasty, peculiar, brutal, as it is intriguing and, perhaps, accurate. Bowden offers consciousness rather than consolation, but in order to do anything about our nightmares we must take a cold look and Red Line casts the coldest eye in recent memory.”
—Jim Harrison
One of Charles Bowden’s earliest books, Red Line powerfully conveys a desert civilization careening over the edge—and decaying at its center. Bowden’s quest for the literal and figurative truth behind the assassination of a murderous border-town drug dealer becomes a meditation on the glories of the desert landscape, the squalors of the society that threatens it, and the contradictions inherent in trying to save it.
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
