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Author
Publisher
University of Texas Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"The renowned author explores the violent and corrupt history of America in "a haunted, often brilliant journey into the heart of our darkness" (Frederick Turner). Blood Orchid is the first volume in Charles Bowden's Unnatural History of America sextet. It is a deeply personal and bracingly sharp chronicle of his quest to unearth our ugly truths. Through stark observations and visceral experiences, Bowden presents a dizzying excavation of the systemic...
Author
Publisher
University of Texas Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
The author of Murder City and Down by the River reflects on the destructive nature of American culture.
Cultivated from the fierce ideas seeded in Blood Orchid, Blues for Cannibals is an elegiac reflection on death, pain, and a wavering confidence in humanity's own abilities for self-preservation. After years of reporting on border violence, sex crimes, and the devastation of the land, Bowden struggles to make sense of the many ways in which we destroy...
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