NP Charles Bowdens forthcoming

[rich]

also try A Shadow in the City--sympathy for a DEA agent.

his prose can get a bit overwrought at times but no one writes better
about the Tex-Mex divide (Like Cormac only nonfiction)

rich

On 2/3/09, grladams at teleport.com <grladams at teleport.com> wrote:
> 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
>
> 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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