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Fire on the Mountain
Edward Abbey
Abbey's novel about a New Mexico rancher fighting the government's attempt to seize his land for a missile range. Less well-known than his desert nonfiction but equally defiant. The old man on the mountain is Abbey's purest fictional self.
desert
Prairie & Plains
Fiction
American Southwest
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Publisher
Harper Perennial Modern Classics
Published
2012
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