Red line /
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Other Authors / Creators: | Galvin, James, writer of foreword. |
Format: | eBook Electronic |
Language: | English |
Imprint: | Austin : University of Texas Press, 2018. |
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Online Access: | Click here for full text at JSTOR |
Summary: | "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. |
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Item Description: | The first edition of Red Line was published by W.W. Norton & Company. Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed April 20, 2018). |
Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xi, 198 pages) |
ISBN: | 1477316620 9781477316627 |
Author Notes: | Author of many acclaimed books about the American Southwest and US-Mexico border issues, Charles Bowden (1945-2014) was a contributing editor for GQ , Harper's , Esquire , and Mother Jones and also wrote for the New York Times Book Review , High Country News , and Aperture . His honors included a PEN First Amendment Award, Lannan Literary Award for Nonfiction, and the Sidney Hillman Award for outstanding journalism that fosters social and economic justice. |