Black Sun
By: Edward Abbey
Edition: First Harper Perennial Modern Classics edition.
Series: Harper Perennial modern classics; Harper Perennial modern classics
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 180
ISBN-13: 9780062323743
Copyright date: 1971
Subjects: Fiction; Forest rangers; Wilderness areas; Separation (Psychology)
Description: Black Sun is a bittersweet love story involving an iconoclastic forest ranger and a freckle-faced "American princess" half his age. Like Lady Chatterley's lover, he initiates her into the rites of sex and the stark, secret harmonies of his wilderness. She, in turn, awakens in him the pleasure of love. Then she mysteriously disappears, plunging him into desolation. Black Sun is a singular novel in Abbey's repertoire, a romantic story of a solitary man's passion for the outdoors and for a woman who is seeing the natural world's true colors for the first time. "Like most honest novels, Black Sun is partly autobiographical, mostly invention, and entirely true. The voice that speaks in this book is the passionate voice of the forest," Abbey writes, "the madness of desire, and the joy of love, and the anguish of final loss."