Charles Bowden
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Blood Orchid
An Unnatural History of America
By Charles Bowden; Introduction by William Langewiesche
University of Texas Press
The first book in Charles Bowden’s “Unnatural History of the United States” sextet, Blood Orchid is a dizzying excavation of the violence and corruption at the roots of American society.
- Copyright year: 2018
Desert Duty
On the Line with the U.S. Border Patrol
University of Texas Press
Covering a fifty-year span of law enforcement, Desert Duty reveals the patriotic sense of duty and compassionate calling that motivates the men and women who guard the borders of the United States.
- Copyright year: 2010
The Red Caddy
Into the Unknown with Edward Abbey
By Charles Bowden; Introduction by Luis Alberto Urrea
University of Texas Press
The first literary biography of Edward Abbey in a generation, this thoughtful memoir serves as a meditation on the writing life, the cult of readers, reputation, and the literary afterlife of a well-known writer.
- Copyright year: 2018
Killing the Hidden Waters
University of Texas Press
The costs and limits of using natural resources, demonstrated through a simple example: water.
- Copyright year: 1985
Mezcal
University of Texas Press
A reissue from the author of Blue Desert and The Red Caddy that charts the disintegration of the land, the loss of friends to drugs, and the decline of American innocence.
- Copyright year: 1988
Some of the Dead Are Still Breathing
Living in the Future
University of Texas Press
The third book in Charles Bowden’s “Unnatural History of the United States” sextet, Some of the Dead Are Still Breathing continues to interrogate humanity’s destructive actions and responsibilities as we move further into the twenty-first century.
- Copyright year: 2018
Blues for Cannibals
The Notes from Underground
University of Texas Press
The second book in Charles Bowden’s “Unnatural History of the United States” sextet, Blues for Cannibals is an elegiac rumination on our hunger for self-consumption and destruction as a species.
- Copyright year: 2018
Blue Desert
By Charles Bowden; Foreword by Francisco Cantú
The University of Arizona Press
Published in 1986, Blue Desert was Charles Bowden’s third book-length work and takes place almost entirely in Arizona, revealing Bowden’s growing and intense preoccupation with the state and what it represented as a symbol of America’s “New West.” With a thoughtful new foreword by Francisco Cantú, Blue Desert is a critical piece of Bowden’s oeuvre.
- Copyright year: 2018
Desierto
Memories of the Future
By Charles Bowden; Introduction by William deBuys
University of Texas Press
A forerunner of Charles Bowden’s acclaimed books about the harsh life in the Southwestern borderlands, Desierto offers seven essays that combine the lore of the gypsy scholar, the incantatory power of a prose shaman, and the bracing cussedness of the old-style American maverick.
- Copyright year: 2018
Red Line
By Charles Bowden; Introduction by James Galvin
University of Texas Press
Red Line powerfully conveys a desert civilization careening over the edge—and decaying at its center.
- Copyright year: 2018
The Charles Bowden Reader
University of Texas Press
With excerpts from his major books—Blue Desert, Desierto: Memories of the Future, Blood Orchid, Blues for Cannibals, A Shadow in the City, Trinity, and Some of the Dead Are Still Breathing—as well as prominent magazine articles and early journalism, this anthology gathers the best and most representative writing from Charles Bowden’s entire career
- Copyright year: 2010
Dreamland
The Way Out of Juarez
University of Texas Press
This striking work of graphic journalism pairs previously unpublished creative nonfiction by Charles Bowden with provocative scratchboard drawings by Alice Leora Briggs to create a vignette of daily life in Juárez, Mexico, in all its surreal brutality and
- Copyright year: 2010
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