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From the rear cover
Black Sun is a bittersweet love story involving an iconoclastic forest ranger and a freckle-faced "American princess" half his age. Like Lady Chatterley's lover, he initiates her into the rites of sex and the stark, secret harmonies of his wilderness. She, in turn, awakens in him the pleasure of love. Then she mysteriously disappears, plunging him into desolation.
Black Sun is a singular novel in Abbey's repertoire, a romantic story of a solitary man's passion for the outdoors and for a woman who is seeing the natural world's true colors for the first time. "Like most honest novels, Black Sun is partly autobiographical, mostly invention, and entirely true. The voice that speaks in this book is the passionate voice of the forest," Abbey writes, "the madness of desire, and the joy of love, and the anguish of final loss."
Edward Abbey spent most of his life in the American Southwest. He was the author of numerous works of fiction and nonfiction, including the celebrated Desert Solitaire, which decried the waste of America's wilderness, and the novel The Monkey Wrench Gang, the title of which is still in use today to describe groups that purposefully sabotage projects and entities that degrade the environment. Abbey was also one of the country's foremost defenders of the natural environment. He died in 1989.
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- Title Black Sun
- Author Edward Abbey
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Pages 192
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Harper Perennial, New York
- Publication date 2014-10-07
- Features Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780062323743 / 0062323741
- Weight 0.3 lbs (0.14 kg)
- Dimensions 7.9 x 5.2 x 0.5 in (20.07 x 13.21 x 1.27 cm)
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Themes
- Cultural Region: South
- Cultural Region: Western U.S.
- Demographic Orientation: Rural
- Demographic Orientation: Small Town
- Sex & Gender: Feminine
- Topical: Country/Cowboy
- Category Fiction - Romance
- Library of Congress subjects Wilderness areas, Fiction
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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