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Mezcal
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The acclaimed author "excavates his own tormented lifeâand its relation to the land he lovesâin a series of powerful, imagistic autobiographical essays" ( Kirkus Reviews ). "Romping drunkenly into Mexico, protesting the Vietnamese war at the University of Wisconsin, marching on the capitol in Washington, hiking into the Pinacate, returning to the family farm in Germantown, Iowa. These and other scenes flash before the reader in Charles Bowden's Mezcal, the final piece of his Southwest trilogy... Although the book is ostensibly autobiographical, Bowden's overriding concern is with trying to make sense of the Sunbelt Phenomena." âDick Kirkpatrick, Western American Literature "In Mezcal ... Bowden drops the journalistic veil, exploring the ecology of his interior landscape at least as thoroughly as the changing scenery that surrounds him... OthersâAldo Leopold, Edward Abbeyâhave already staked inviolate claims on the Southwestern deserts. But Bowden owns the complex terrain where, like a mezcal-inspired mirage, the Sonoran sun-belt overlaps the gray convolutions of the American mind." â Los Angeles Times " Mezcal is also a lyrical meditation upon the ultimate strength of the land, specifically the desert Southwest, and how that land prevails and endures despite every effort of modern industry and development to rape and savage it in the name of progress. Mezcal lingers in the mind as only the very best books manage to do." âHarry Crews, author of A Feast of Snakes
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Also by Charles Bowden
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Open the Bottle
- Some Debts
- About the Author