Desert Cabal
A New Season in the Wilderness
Published on 6. November 2018
Book
Paperback/Softback
98 pages
978-1-937226-97-8 (ISBN)
Description
A fearless, heartfelt essay collection in which Amy Irvine celebrates environmental icon Edward Abbey-and gives him a talking to.
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Language
English
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Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 175 mm
Width: 106 mm
Thickness: 12 mm
Weight
102 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-937226-97-8 (9781937226978)
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11/2018
Torrey House Press
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Person
AMY IRVINE is a sixth-generation Utahn and longtime public lands activist. Her work has been published in Orion, Pacific Standard, High Desert Journal, Climbing, Triquarterly, and other publications. Her memoir, Trespass: Living at the Edge of the Promised Land, received the Orion Book Award, the Ellen Meloy Desert Writers Award, and Colorado Book Award. Her essay "Spectral Light," which appeared in Orion and The Best American Science and Nature Writing, was a finalist for the Pen Award in Journalism, and her recent essay, "Conflagrations: Motherhood, Madness and a Planet on Fire" appeared among the 2017 Best American Essays' list of Notables. Irvine teaches in the Mountainview Low-Residency MFA Program of Southern New Hampshire University-in the White Mountains of New England. She lives and writes off the grid in southwest Colorado, just spitting distance from her Utah homeland.