The Serpents of Paradise by Edward Abbey

The Serpents of Paradise by Edward Abbey

From boyhood in Home, Pennsylvania, to his death in Tucson, Arizona, in 1989, this book offers - in Abbey's own words - the world of an American original. Whether writing fact or fiction, Abbey was always an autobiographer. Each of the thirty-five selections presented here, arranged chronologically by date of incident (not of publication), demonstrates that Abbey was passionately, insistently his own man. As poet-farmer Wendell Berry puts it: He remains Edward Abbey, speaking as and for himself, fighting, literally, for dear life . for the survival not only of nature, but of human nature, of culture, as only our heritage of works and hopes can define it. To speak for the voiceless was his mission. He was a virtuoso of the well-phrased thought in which style and content, symbol and meaning - each imbued with humor - come together to defy the powerful, reminding us always that preservation of wild nature is a key to a free spirit. And along with Emerson and Thoreau, Abbey, the uncompromising stylist, knew that the corruption of language follows the corruption of man. Language, Abbey wrote, seeks to transcend itself, 'to grasp the thing that has no name.'

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ISBN 13	9780805031331
ISBN 10	0805031332
Title	The Serpents of Paradise
Author	Edward Abbey
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Holt Paperbacks
Year published	1996-05-15
Number of pages	400
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