Postcards from Ed
Subtitle: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast
Contributors: Terry Tempest Williams (Foreword); David Petersen (Editor)
Publisher: Milkweed Editions
Published: August 23, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9781571312846
Subjects: General; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Authors, American; 20th century; Literary Collections; Literature: Classics; Letters; Correspondence; American - General; Nature / Essays; 1927-1989; Abbey, Edward,
Description: "Edward Abbey (1927-1989) was a singular American writer and cult hero, as famous for books like Desert Solitaire and The Monkey Wrench Gang as he was infamous for the prickly persona of "Cactus Ed." Abbey's postcards and letters, legendary during his lifetime and collected here for the first time, convey the fullness of the man and reveal, along with his wisdom and savage wit, a tender side seldom seen before. Whether spouting on the virtues of anger, roasting hawkish proponents of Vietnam, or lending encouragement to fellow writers such as Cormac McCarthy, here we find the essential spirit of the man, intimate and revolutionary."--BOOK JACKET.