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Title: Good News by Edward Abbey ISBN: 0-452-26565-7 Publisher: E P Dutton Pub. Date: January, 1991 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.75 (4 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Abbey does Sci-Fi
Comment: This is Abbey's most unabashedly anarchist novel (yes, even more so than The Monkey Wrench Gang) with anti-militarist undertones as well as his usual love for the rural Southwest.
This is Abbey's one attempt at writing sci-fi, with the novel set in a future time when the governments and big corporations in the cities have collapsed under the weight of their own unsustainability, and the people have largely returned to the small-scale agrarian economy of the Old West, albeit with no government. The ideal, in Abbey's worldview. Only problem is, there is a would-be military dictator trying to establish a power base in Phoenix and re-establish the state and the primacy of the city.
Not as good a novel as The Monkey Wrench Gang, but still rates 5 stars.
For some intellectual fun, compare and contrast this book to Ayn Rand's Anthem. It is interesting how both Abbey and Rand portray the cities as hives of statism and authoritarianism, and rural areas as the places where freedom and escape from authoritarian government can be found. And yet, Abbey and Rand held such diametrically opposed views on the environment and wilderness preservation. Which one is right? Or more to the point, is preserving wilderness and rural areas from development our last best hope as an escape hatch from authoritarian government? On this point, I'll put my bet on Abbey any day!
Rating: 5
Summary: Forget '1984'
Comment: This is not only one of Abbey's best novels but a great novel in its own right. As both a city and a country dweller I can not only relate but confirm much of his notion that cities are not nearly as healthy for a man's soul as the country is. In addition this is a great story about social decay and what it takes to over come the challanges that arise from such a situation. We have grown soft and forgetful of what our forefathers went through to create a country like ours and this book gives a realistic and easy to swallow insight into their frames of mind and their state of heart. This is the wild west and the futurama all mixed together with an iron fisted military group to boot. I still can't believe this was never made into a movie.
Rating: 5
Summary: A rare anarcho-classic!
Comment: Abbey's best work will always be his essays, but this novel is one of those "forgotten" dystopian classics that deserves much more attention. Forget Orwell's "1984." It's too European. Forget Levin's "This Perfect Day." It's too fantastic. Abbey has written the best post-apocalypse American novel to date. And his politics, as always, ring true. Up the rebels! An anarcho-classic
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Title: One Life at a Time, Please by Edward Abbey ISBN: 0805006036 Publisher: Henry Holt & Company, Inc. Pub. Date: 15 February, 1988 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Brave Cowboy by Edward Abbey ISBN: 0380714590 Publisher: Avon Pub. Date: 01 April, 1992 List Price(USD): $13.50 |
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Title: The Journey Home: Some Words in Defense of the American West by Edward Abbey, Jim Stiles ISBN: 0452265622 Publisher: Plume Pub. Date: January, 1991 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Black Sun by Edward Abbey, John Nichols ISBN: 1555662862 Publisher: Johnson Books Pub. Date: September, 2003 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness (Vox Clamantis in Deserto) : Notes from a Secret Journal by Edward Abbey, Andrew Rush ISBN: 0312064888 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 15 August, 1991 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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