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The Last Cheater’s Waltz: Beauty and Violence in the Desert Southwest

The Last Cheater’s Waltz: Beauty and Violence in the Desert Southwest

Ellen Meloy
Meloy's final book — essays about nuclear testing, endangered species, and the contradictions of living in a landscape that is both beautiful and bombed. The desert as contested ground.
desert River & Water Essays American Southwest
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Publisher Henry Holt & Co.
Published 1999
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