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"The announcement of a new Abbey book, whether essays or fiction, stirs a personal craving no other current American writer can satisfy." --Los Angeles Book Review
"Abbey was a true independent, a self-declared extremist and 'desert mystic, ' and a hell of a good writer. . . . John Macrae has wisely chosen to organize these outstanding essays, travel pieces, and works of fiction to parallel events in Abbey's unusual life." --Booklist
"A record as important and lovely as Muir's and Thoreau's." --William McKibben, author of The End of Nature
"A splendid summary of his best work. . . . Anyone who doesn't already know his work will find this volume, culled from more than a dozen books of fiction and nonfiction, an addictive introduction." --Publishers Weekly
"Abbey was many things as a writer, and his longtime editor, John Macrae, has put together a collection which follows the course of Abbey's life through his own work. It is a clever way to anthologize a talent who is impossible to pigeonhole. . . . A fine introduction to a writer who seems certain to endure and is, undeniably, an American original." --Geoffrey Norman, American Way
"Abbey's work is a kind of blessed voice in the wilderness any way you take it, and a precious figure in our lethal time." --W.S. Merwin
"The Serpents of Paradise is without question the best Abbey reader." --David Petersen, editor of Confessions of a Barbarian: Selections from the Journals of Edward Abbey, 1951-1989
Edward Abbey was born in 1927 in Pennsylvania. He earned graduate and postgraduate degrees from the University of New Mexico. He wrote Desert Solitaire while working as a Park Ranger in Utah. He is also the author of The Monkey Wrench Gang, Abbey's Road, and The Journey Home, among others. He died in March 1989.
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