Edward Abbey (1927–1989)
Auteur van Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness
Over de Auteur
Edward Abbey was born January 29, 1927 in Indiana, Pennsylvania, and grew up in nearby Home. After military service in Naples, Italy, from 1945-47, he enrolled in Indiana University of Pennsylvania for a year before traveling to the West. He fell in love with the desert Southwest and eventually toon meer attended the University of New Mexico, where he obtained both graduate and post-graduate degrees. Abbey was a Fulbright Fellow from 1951-52. Abbey was an anarchist and a radical environmentalist; these positions are reflected in his writings. His novel Fire on the Mountain won the Western Heritage Award for Best Novel in 1963. Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness, considered by many to be his best work, is nonfiction that reflects Abbey's love for the American Southwest and draws on his experiences as a park ranger. Among his best-known works are The Brave Cowboy (1956), The Monkey Wrench Gang (1975), and The Fool's Progress (1988). In 1966 The Brave Cowboy was made into a movie titled Lonely Are the Brave, starring Kirk Douglas. Two collections of essays have been published since his death in 1989: Confessions of a Barbarian in 1994 and The Serpents of Paradise the following year. In 1987, Abbey was offered the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award, but he declined. Abbey died in March 1989, near Tucson, Arizona, from complications following surgery. He did not want a traditional burial but rather requested to be buried in the Arizona desert, where he could nourish the earth which had been the subject of so many of his works. (Bowker Author Biography) toon minder
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Werken van Edward Abbey
Confessions of a Barbarian: Selections from the Journals of Edward Abbey, 1951-1989 (1994) 229 exemplaren
A Voice Crying in the Wilderness (Vox Clamantis in Deserto): Notes from a Secret Journal (1989) 228 exemplaren
Edward Abbey : an interview at Pack Creek Ranch 1 exemplaar
Guadalupe's Trails in Summer 1 exemplaar
The Secret of the Green Mask 1 exemplaar
Theory of Anarchy 1 exemplaar
The Rain and the Fire and the Will of God 1 exemplaar
Desert Skin 1 exemplaar
Heading Home: Edward Abbey Talks About Writing 1 exemplaar
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Tagged
Algemene kennis
- Gangbare naam
- Abbey, Edward
- Officiële naam
- Abbey, Edward Paul
- Geboortedatum
- 1927-01-29
- Overlijdensdatum
- 1989-03-14
- Graflocatie
- Cabeza Prieta Desert, Ajo, Arizona, USA
- Geslacht
- male
- Nationaliteit
- USA
- Geboorteplaats
- Indiana, Pennsylvania, USA
- Plaats van overlijden
- Tucson, Arizona, USA
- Oorzaak van overlijden
- portal hypertension, a consequence of end stage liver cirrhosis
- Woonplaatsen
- Hoboken, New Jersey, USA
Moab, Utah, USA - Opleiding
- University of New Mexico (BA | 1951 | MA | 1956 | Philosophy)
University of Edinburgh (Fulbright Scholar)
Stanford University (Stegner Fellow)
Indiana University of Pennsylvania - Beroepen
- author
essayist
seasonal ranger - Organisaties
- United States Army
University of Arizona
United States National Park Service - Prijzen en onderscheidingen
- Western Literature Association's Distinguished Achievement Award (1978)
Western Heritage Award for Best Novel (1963)
American Academy of Arts and Letters Award (1987, declined)
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The Monkey Wrench Gang (Harper Perennial Modern… door Edward Abbey
I read somewhere that this would have made a better comic book than a novel, and I think I would agree with that. The style is reminiscent of the worst overwriting of New Journalism, a la Wolfe and Hunter S. Thompson. If you dig that, you'll love this. I found it a bit of a slog. The book's at its best when Abbey is describing the landscape of the Southwest. It's certainly still an important work in the context of environmental activism (ecoterrorism, we'd call it now), and Abbey has a great sense of humor.… (meer)
I'm going to pick this one up again closer to my vacation in Moab. I like it -- but I think I'll like it a lot more when I've been there.
I loved his description of Utah and his reflections on people, in particular the phrase "loveliness not loneliness". What turned me off were his rants on a variety of topics, some of which bordered on cruelty.
I read this because it was mentioned in Pilgrim at Tinker Creek. It didn't rattle me the way Pilgrim did, and it's rife with Abbey's racism, sexism, and apathy toward people who use wheelchairs. But he sparked a new reverence for the desert in me, which made it a worthwhile read after all.
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