[Read ebook] The Last Cheater's Waltz: Beauty and Violence in the Desert Southwest
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| #478226 in Books | Ellen Meloy | 2000-11-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.00 x.60 x6.00l,.61 | File Name: 0816521530 | 225 pages | The Last Cheater s Waltz Beauty and Violence in the Desert Southwest
||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| How do you explain this book? You don't.|By Todd Warnke|Like the southwest from which Meloy draws her sense of self, like mortality and its hopes and fears, it must be personally experienced. With prose that borders on poetry, with insights that range from the deeply personal to the universal, this book asks that we broaden our morality, move past the daily, look beyond the|.com |Constant exposure to beauty, Ellen Meloy warns, can be a dangerous thing. Which is to say the river runner and natural-history writer found herself not long ago estranged from the rugged red-rock Colorado Plateau country in which she had lived for years.
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 plac... [PDF.ue94] The Last Cheater's Waltz: Beauty and Violence in the Desert Southwest Rating: 4.69 (472 Votes)
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