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An often surreal memoir retraces the path of the Gold Rush, stumbles upon a charismatic Arizona sage, and searches after a border-town drug dealer as it portrays an American Southwest on the verge of ruin
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Author of many acclaimed books about the American Southwest and US-Mexico border issues, Charles Bowden (1945–2014) was a contributing editor for GQ, Harper’s, Esquire, and Mother Jones and also wrote for the New York Times Book Review, High Country News, and Aperture. His honors included a PEN First Amendment Award, Lannan Literary Award for Nonfiction, and the Sidney Hillman Award for outstanding journalism that fosters social and economic justice.
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The Southwest as portrayed in this Kerouac-esque odyssey betokening the death of the American frontier spirit is a landscape of broken dreams, violence, uprooted lives and fallen idols. Bowden ( Mezcal ), joined by a retired narcotics cop, sets out to investigate the murder of a Mexican drug dealer/hit-man outside Tucson. His obsessive, detective-like quest seems at least partly an evasion of personal problems--he has just fathered a baby out of wedlock. We meet real estate developers, sullen Indians, assorted castoffs, a Vietnam vet, a rogue archeologist and, through historical flashbacks, gold-crazed '49ers. Miles distant from tourist-poster images of the Sunbelt, this vista of narrow greed, diminished expectations and despoilation of nature sizzles with the harsh, unrelenting glare of a hyperrealist painting.
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- PublisherPenguin Books
- Publication date1991
- ISBN 10 0140145486
- ISBN 13 9780140145489
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages208
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Book Description Condition: Good. "At its best, Red Line can read like an original synthesis of Peter Matthie ssen and William Burroughs . . . a brave and interesting book." --David Rieff, Los Angeles Times Book Review "Charles Bowden's Red Line is a look at America through the window of the s outhwest. His vision is as nasty, peculiar, brutal, as it is intriguing and , perhaps, accurate. Bowden offers consciousness rather than consolation, b ut in order to do anything about our nightmares we must take a cold look an d Red Line casts the coldest eye in recent memory." --Jim Harrison. Seller Inventory # RWARE0000044754
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