Charles Bowden
Author
Publisher
University of Texas Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Here Bowden (Blue Desert) probes the spiritual decadence of those arid lands that knife into Mexico from southern Arizona, the desierto. For the author, this is home turf, and he knows it well. What he shows is a harsh land repeatedly exploited by a greedy white culture and now ruled by drug lords and land barons. He focuses on the victims living in fearful and impoverished Sonoran villages, shifting his gaze at times to the exploiters, like Phoenix...
Author
Publisher
University of Texas Press
Pub. Date
c2003.
Language
English
Description
Bowden looks back at his first effort to awaken people to the costs and limits of using natural resources through a simple and obvious example - water. He drives home the point that years of droughts, rationing, and even water wars have done nothing to slake the insatiable consumption of water in the American West.
Author
Publisher
Nation Books
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Ciudad Juarez lies just across the Rio Grande from El Paso, Texas. A once-thriving border town, it now resembles a failed state. Infamously known as the place where women disappear, its murder rate exceeds that of Baghdad. Last year 1,607 people were killed, a number that is on pace to increase in 2009. In Murder City, Charles Bowden, one of the few journalists who has spent extended periods of time in Juarez, has written an extraordinary account...
5) Red line
Author
Publisher
University of Texas Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
In this powerful book, Bowden ventures through the Southwest in a tangled search for the truth behind the assassination of a murderous border-town drug dealer. Along the way he encounters high-rolling developers, ecological activists, a charismatic archaeologist-sage, and illegal aliens in a life-on-the-edge trek that brings you into a desert civilization careening out of control and decaying at its center.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
From the Publisher: The magnificent second novel from the legendary author of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. Following the astonishing success of his first novel, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Ken Kesey wrote what Charles Bowden calls "one of the few essential books written by an American in the last half century." This wild-spirited tale tells of a bitter strike that rages through a small lumber town along the Oregon coast. Bucking that strike...
Author
Publisher
Touchstone
Pub. Date
c1995.
Language
English
Description
Through Abbey's own writings and personal papers, as well as interviews with friends and acquaintances, Bishop gives us a penetrating, compelling, no-holds-barred view of tile life and accomplishments of this controversial figure.