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Publisher
Holt & Company, Henry
ISBN-10
0805079777
ISBN-13
9780805079777
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99471402
Product Key Features
Book Title
Desert America : Boom and Bust in the New Old West
Number of Pages
352 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Human Geography, Emigration & Immigration, Sociology / General, Economic Conditions
Publication Year
2012
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Yes
Genre
Social Science, Business & Economics
Format
Hardcover
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Item Height
1.2 in
Item Weight
18.7 Oz
Item Length
9.6 in
Item Width
6.4 in
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Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2011-040587
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
A savage journey into terror, cacti, drugs, desperation and all-around anomie in the superheated atmosphere of the desert Southwest... A necessary chronicle of a weird corner of America., Desert America is a thorough, heartfelt, must-read for anyone investigating the West's state of economic and spiritual shambles., "Unflinching… A sensitive, intricate perspective on the boom and bust cycle that characterizes the dry landscape of the American Southwest." - NBC Latino "A savage journey into terror, cacti, drugs, desperation and all-around anomie in the superheated atmosphere of the desert Southwest… A necessary chronicle of a weird corner of America." -Kirkus Reviews (starred review) "MartÃnez offers reportage beyond the simple binaries of the immigration issue or the drug war. He delivers a lively, compassionate intervention into our collective conception of the Southwest… This thoughtful and well-written account intimately explores the convolutions of racism and class conflict that have come to define a divided America." -Publishers Weekly "After burn-outs in LA and Mexico City, MartÃnez flees to the desert in the hope that fierce, simplifying landscapes will cure his urban addictions. But he quickly discovers that the desert, far from a bohemian alternative, is actually the crisis of working-class American life reframed in the starkest existential terms. At this crossroads, where other writers would have surrendered to the darkness, MartÃnez instead looks toward the light. While the narrative is always honest and hard-headed, no book that I've read in the last twenty years has inspired so much genuine hope for the future of the West." -Mike Davis , author of Planet of Slums "Desert America is an uninsulated wire running through the hard-bitten, right-now, rough-edged Southwest, a land still being born. Go ahead and grab hold: first comes shock-maybe of recognition, maybe alarm-then you keep buzzing for page after electric page. You can't let go." - William deBuys , author of A Great Aridness and River of Traps "Most people experience the desert by car-they drive, stop to get gas, drive on, and after a while, they don't see it anymore. Now the big plan is to cover the desert with solar panels and in ten years or less, it will all be gone, just like that. Maybe then, Rubén MartÃnez's testament will be as close as you can get to the living feel of this beautiful land. After reading, I bet you'll want to drive out there and take a look. But you better hurry." -Ry Cooder , guitarist, singer, composer, and author of Los Angeles Stories " Desert America is a thorough, heartfelt, must-read for anyone investigating the West's state of economic and spiritual shambles." - Ana Castillo , author of The Guardians "Rubén MartÃnez offers a vision of the mythic West, complete with cowboys and drug mules, vistas and tract developments. But the desert sand under MartÃnez is constantly shifting, and his writing is fluid enough to capture this shift-he knows that all he can seek is the idea of the West." - Nick Flynn , author of Another Bullshit Night in Suck City "Rubén MartÃnez comes at his topics through side doors. He surprises. The result here is a disturbing and moving book. Searing, erudite, evocative, gritty, and funny are not adjectives I often apply to a single book, but there are few writers as singular as MartÃnez." -Richard White , author of Railroaded: The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America, Martínez offers reportage beyond the simple binaries of the immigration issue or the drug war. He delivers a lively, compassionate intervention into our collective conception of the Southwest... This thoughtful and well-written account intimately explores the convolutions of racism and class conflict that have come to define a divided America., Unflinching... A sensitive, intricate perspective on the boom and bust cycle that characterizes the dry landscape of the American Southwest., "Martínez offers reportage beyond the simple binaries of the immigration issue or the drug war. He delivers a lively, compassionate intervention into our collective conception of the Southwest... This thoughtful and well-written account intimately explores the convolutions of racism and class conflict that have come to define a divided America." - Publishers Weekly, After burn-outs in LA and Mexico City, Martínez flees to the desert in the hope that fierce, simplifying landscapes will cure his urban addictions. But he quickly discovers that the desert, far from a bohemian alternative, is actually the crisis of working-class American life reframed in the starkest existential terms. At this crossroads, where other writers would have surrendered to the darkness, Martínez instead looks toward the light. While the narrative is always honest and hard-headed, no book that I've read in the last twenty years has inspired so much genuine hope for the future of the West., It's hard to imagine a more engaging and illuminating chronicle of the contemporary West.... A nuanced, conflicted, poetic meditation on an endlessly elusive subject., Rubén Martínez offers a vision of the mythic West, complete with cowboys and drug mules, vistas and tract developments. But the desert sand under Martínez is constantly shifting, and his writing is fluid enough to capture this shift--he knows that all he can seek is the idea of the West., A compelling and daring book, one filled with equal parts confession, history, and politics... This book will challenge every idea you may have formed about life and death in our western deserts., Deeply moving and insightful... A memoir that also manages to be an excellent work of reportage... Martínez treats all the people he writes about, and the places where they live, with the kind of profound respect all too rare among the legions of Western writers who have preceded him. The result is an emotional and intellectually astute portrait of communities long neglected and misunderstood by American literature., Most people experience the desert by car--they drive, stop to get gas, drive on, and after a while, they don't see it anymore. Now the big plan is to cover the desert with solar panels and in ten years or less, it will all be gone, just like that. Maybe then, Rubén Martínez's testament will be as close as you can get to the living feel of this beautiful land. After reading, I bet you'll want to drive out there and take a look. But you better hurry., "Martinez is one of the brightest voices of a new generation of Hispanic Southern Californian writers. He manages to be both graceful and impassioned; his obsessions with multiculturalism, with the nature of identity and with popular culture are precisely the subjects with which intelligent people today must grapple." - The Washington Post, Rubén Martínez comes at his topics through side doors. He surprises. The result here is a disturbing and moving book. Searing, erudite, evocative, gritty, and funny are not adjectives I often apply to a single book, but there are few writers as singular as Martínez., "A savage journey into terror, cacti, drugs, desperation and all-around anomie in the superheated atmosphere of the desert Southwest.… A necessary chronicle of a weird corner of America." -Kirkus Reviews (starred review) "MartÃnez offers reportage beyond the simple binaries of the immigration issue or the drug war. He delivers a lively, compassionate intervention into our collective conception of the Southwest… This thoughtful and well-written account intimately explores the convolutions of racism and class conflict that have come to define a divided America." -Publishers Weekly "After burn-outs in LA and Mexico City, MartÃnez flees to the desert in the hope that fierce, simplifying landscapes will cure his urban addictions. But he quickly discovers that the desert, far from a bohemian alternative, is actually the crisis of working-class American life reframed in the starkest existential terms. At this crossroads, where other writers would have surrendered to the darkness, MartÃnez instead looks toward the light. While the narrative is always honest and hard-headed, no book that I've read in the last twenty years has inspired so much genuine hope for the future of the West." -Mike Davis , author of Planet of Slums "Desert America is an uninsulated wire running through the hard-bitten, right-now, rough-edged Southwest, a land still being born. Go ahead and grab hold: first comes shock-maybe of recognition, maybe alarm-then you keep buzzing for page after electric page. You can't let go." - William deBuys , author of A Great Aridness and River of Traps "Most people experience the desert by car-they drive, stop to get gas, drive on, and after a while, they don't see it anymore. Now the big plan is to cover the desert with solar panels and in ten years or less, it will all be gone, just like that. Maybe then, Rubén MartÃnez's testament will be as close as you can get to the living feel of this beautiful land. After reading, I bet you'll want to drive out there and take a look. But you better hurry." -Ry Cooder , guitarist, singer, composer, and author of Los Angeles Stories " Desert America is a thorough, heartfelt, must-read for anyone investigating the West's state of economic and spiritual shambles." - Ana Castillo , author of The Guardians "Rubén MartÃnez offers a vision of the mythic West, complete with cowboys and drug mules, vistas and tract developments. But the desert sand under MartÃnez is constantly shifting, and his writing is fluid enough to capture this shift-he knows that all he can seek is the idea of the West." - Nick Flynn , author of Another Bullshit Night in Suck City "Rubén MartÃnez comes at his topics through side doors. He surprises. The result here is a disturbing and moving book. Searing, erudite, evocative, gritty, and funny are not adjectives I often apply to a single book, but there are few writers as singular as MartÃnez." -Richard White , author of Railroaded: The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America, "Deeply moving and insightful… A memoir that also manages to be an excellent work of reportage… MartÃnez treats all the people he writes about, and the places where they live, with the kind of profound respect all too rare among the legions of Western writers who have preceded him. The result is an emotional and intellectually astute portrait of communities long neglected and misunderstood by American literature." - Los Angeles Times "Unflinching… A sensitive, intricate perspective on the boom and bust cycle that characterizes the dry landscape of the American Southwest." - NBC Latino "A savage journey into terror, cacti, drugs, desperation and all-around anomie in the superheated atmosphere of the desert Southwest… A necessary chronicle of a weird corner of America." -Kirkus Reviews (starred review) "MartÃnez offers reportage beyond the simple binaries of the immigration issue or the drug war. He delivers a lively, compassionate intervention into our collective conception of the Southwest… This thoughtful and well-written account intimately explores the convolutions of racism and class conflict that have come to define a divided America." -Publishers Weekly "After burn-outs in LA and Mexico City, MartÃnez flees to the desert in the hope that fierce, simplifying landscapes will cure his urban addictions. But he quickly discovers that the desert, far from a bohemian alternative, is actually the crisis of working-class American life reframed in the starkest existential terms. At this crossroads, where other writers would have surrendered to the darkness, MartÃnez instead looks toward the light. While the narrative is always honest and hard-headed, no book that I've read in the last twenty years has inspired so much genuine hope for the future of the West." -Mike Davis , author of Planet of Slums "Desert America is an uninsulated wire running through the hard-bitten, right-now, rough-edged Southwest, a land still being born. Go ahead and grab hold: first comes shock-maybe of recognition, maybe alarm-then you keep buzzing for page after electric page. You can't let go." - William deBuys , author of A Great Aridness and River of Traps "Most people experience the desert by car-they drive, stop to get gas, drive on, and after a while, they don't see it anymore. Now the big plan is to cover the desert with solar panels and in ten years or less, it will all be gone, just like that. Maybe then, Rubén MartÃnez's testament will be as close as you can get to the living feel of this beautiful land. After reading, I bet you'll want to drive out there and take a look. But you better hurry." -Ry Cooder , guitarist, singer, composer, and author of Los Angeles Stories " Desert America is a thorough, heartfelt, must-read for anyone investigating the West's state of economic and spiritual shambles." - Ana Castillo , author of The Guardians "Rubén MartÃnez offers a vision of the mythic West, complete with cowboys and drug mules, vistas and tract developments. But the desert sand under MartÃnez is constantly shifting, and his writing is fluid enough to capture this shift-he knows that all he can seek is the idea of the West." - Nick Flynn , author of Another Bullshit Night in Suck City "Rubén MartÃnez comes at his topics through side doors. He surprises. The result here is a disturbing and moving book. Searing, erudite, evocative, gritty, and funny are not adjectives I often apply to a single book, but there are few writers as singular as MartÃnez." -Richard White , author of Railroaded: The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America, Desert America is an uninsulated wire running through the hard-bitten, right-now, rough-edged Southwest, a land still being born. Go ahead and grab hold: first comes shock--maybe of recognition, maybe alarm--then you keep buzzing for page after electric page. You can't let go.
Dewey Decimal
330.9789
Synopsis
A brilliantly illuminating portrait of the twenty-first-century West a book as vast, diverse, and unexpected as the land and the people, from one of our foremost chroniclers of migrationThe economic boom and the devastation left in its wake has been writ nowhere as large as on the West, the most iconic of American landscapes. Over the last decade the West has undergone a political and demographic upheaval comparable only to the opening of the frontier. Now, in "Desert America," a work of powerful reportage and memoir, Ruben Martinez, acclaimed author of "Crossing Over," evokes a new world of extremes: outrageous wealth and devastating poverty, sublime beauty and ecological ruin. In northern New Mexico, an epidemic of drug addiction flourishes in the shadow of some of the country's richest zip codes; in Joshua Tree, California, gentrification displaces people and history. In Marfa, Texas, an exclusive enclave triggers a race war near the banks of the Rio Grande. And on the Tohono O'odham reservation, Native Americans hunt down Mexican migrants crossing the most desolate stretch of the border.With each desert story, Martinez explores his own encounter with the West and his love for this most contested region. In the process, he reveals that the great frontier is now a harbinger of the vast disparities that are redefining the very idea of America.", A brilliantly illuminating portrait of the twenty-first-century West--a book as vast, diverse, and unexpected as the land and the people, from one of our foremost chroniclers of migration The economic boom--and the devastation left in its wake--has been writ nowhere as large as on the West, the most iconic of American landscapes. Over the last decade the West has undergone a political and demographic upheaval comparable only to the opening of the frontier. Now, in Desert America , a work of powerful reportage and memoir, Rubén Martínez, acclaimed author of Crossing Over , evokes a new world of extremes: outrageous wealth and devastating poverty, sublime beauty and ecological ruin. In northern New Mexico, an epidemic of drug addiction flourishes in the shadow of some of the country's richest zip codes; in Joshua Tree, California, gentrification displaces people and history. In Marfa, Texas, an exclusive enclave triggers a race war near the banks of the Rio Grande. And on the Tohono O'odham reservation, Native Americans hunt down Mexican migrants crossing the most desolate stretch of the border. With each desert story, Martínez explores his own encounter with the West and his love for this most contested region. In the process, he reveals that the great frontier is now a harbinger of the vast disparities that are redefining the very idea of America.
LC Classification Number
HC107.N6M37 2012
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