NP Charles Bowdens forthcoming

[grladams at teleport.com]

I looked in the P-list archives and there was some small dialogue about
Bowden's award winning Down by the River title about Mexican border
narco-traffic. Reading reviews today, came across this and it seemed like
"stuff Pynchon cares about" --do y'all know what I mean?

Some of the Dead Are Still Breathing: Living in the Future 
Charles Bowden
ISBN: 0151013950   EAN: 9780151013951 
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) 
US SRP: $ 24.00 US  -  (Discount: REG)  
Binding: Hardcover  
Pub Date: April 2009 

BISAC Categories: 
- Nature | General
- Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs  
LC Subjects:
- Bowden, Charles  - Description and travel  
- Ecology  - Natural history  
- Social change  - Social prediction  
- Southwest, New  - Voyages and travels  

 
Dewey: 917.90434  
LCCN: 2008052950 

Publisher Marketing:
In more than a dozen groundbreaking books and many articles, Charles Bowden
has blazed a trail of fire from the deserts of the Southwest to the centers
of power where abstract ideas of human nature hold sway--and to the roiling
places that give such ideas the lie. He has claimed as his turf "our soul
history, the germinal material, vast and brooding, that is always left out
of more orthodox (all of them) books about America" (Jim Harrison, on
"Blood Orchid"). In this seminal book, Bowden turns his fearless gaze
toward the future--the future we can feel hurtling toward us, as fuel
reserves dwindle, species die out, terrorism flourishes, the Earth warms,
and our ability to be fully awake--alert and impassioned in our
lives--wanes. Weaving together natural history, memoir, reportage, and
sheer virtuosic writing, he takes us on a furious tour of our emerging
reality, his observations from the borderlands--of nations, laws, species,
and desire--all the more searing for his refusal to be our scourge. Bowden
has always had the gift of prophecy, but "Some of the Dead Are Still
Breathing "is proof that the times have caught up with his vision, and need
it now more than ever. 

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