The Last Cheater's Waltz: Beauty and Violence in the Desert Southwest

by Meloy, Ellen
ISBN: 9780816521531
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In this abundant space and isolation, the energy lords extract their bounty of natural resources, and the curators of mass destruction once mined their egregious weapons and reckless acts. It is a land of absolutes, of passion and indifference, lush textures and inscrutable tensions. Here violence can push beauty to the edge of a razor blade. . . . Thus Ellen Meloy describes a corner of desert hard by the San Juan River in southeastern Utah, a place long forsaken as implausible and impassable, of little use or value--a place that she calls home. Despite twenty years of carefully nurtured intimacy with this red-rock landscape, Meloy finds herself, one sunbaked morning, staring down at a dead lizard floating in her coffee and feeling suddenly unmoored. What follows is a quest that is both physical and spiritual, a search for home.
  • Format: TradePaperback
  • Author: Meloy, Ellen
  • ISBN: 9780816521531
  • Condition: Used
  • Dimensions: 8.19 x 0.55
  • Number Of Pages: 239
  • Publication Year: 2000
Language: English