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The Last Cheater's Waltz : Beauty and Violence in the Desert Southwest, Paperback / softback Book

The Last Cheater's Waltz : Beauty and Violence in the Desert Southwest Paperback / softback

Paperback / softback

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"In this abundant space and isolation, the energy lords extract their bounty of natural resources, and the curators of mass destruction once mined their egregious weapons and reckless acts.

It is a land of absolutes, of passion and indifference, lush textures and inscrutable tensions.

Here violence can push beauty to the edge of a razor blade..." Thus Ellen Meloy describes a corner of desert hard by the San Juan River in southeastern Utah, a place long forsaken as implausible and impassable, of little use or value a place that she calls home.

Despite twenty years of carefully nurtured intimacy with this red-rock landscape, Meloy finds herself, one sunbaked morning, staring down at a dead lizard floating in her coffee and feeling suddenly unmoored.

What follows is a quest that is both physical and spiritual, a search for home.

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