Good News (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780452265653)

In Good News, Edward Abbey's acclaimed underground classic, the West is wild again. American civilization as the twentieth century knew it has crumbled. In the great Southwest, a new breed of settler, whites and Indians together, is creating a new way of life in the wilderness--a pastoral economy--with skills and savvy resurrected from the pre-industrial past. Meanwhile, in a last surviving bastion of urban life, the remnants of the power elite are girding their armed forces to re-impose the old order. This is a land of horses and motorcycles, high-tech weaponry and primitive courage, and the struggle for the American future is mounting in intensity. No quarter is asked or given, and the outcome hangs in perilous balance against a background of magnificent nature and eternal human verities.

With this boldly satirical imaginary world, Abbey asks us to look around and take stock of what we value--before it is too late.

Author: Edward Abbey
ISBN-10: 0452265657
ISBN-13: 9780452265653
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Language: English
Published: 01/30/1991
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 7.99h x 5.33w x 0.58d