The Last Cheater's Waltz: Beauty and Violence in the Desert Southwest (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780816521531)

In this abundant space and isolation, the energy lords extract their bounty of natural resources, and the curators of mass destruction once mined their egregious weapons and reckless acts. It is a land of absolutes, of passion and indifference, lush textures and inscrutable tensions. Here violence can push beauty to the edge of a razor blade. . . . Thus Ellen Meloy describes a corner of desert hard by the San Juan River in southeastern Utah, a place long forsaken as implausible and impassable, of little use or value--a place that she calls home. Despite twenty years of carefully nurtured intimacy with this red-rock landscape, Meloy finds herself, one sunbaked morning, staring down at a dead lizard floating in her coffee and feeling suddenly unmoored. What follows is a quest that is both physical and spiritual, a search for home.

Author: Ellen Meloy
ISBN-10: 0816521530
ISBN-13: 9780816521531
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Language: English
Published: 11/01/2000
Pages: 239
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.50w x 0.60d