The Best of Edward Abbey
- ISBN-10
- 0844665223
- ISBN-13
- 9780844665221
- Category
- History
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1992
- Publisher
- Peter Smith Pub Incorporated
- Author
- Edward Abbey
Description
In 1984, the late great Edward Abbey compiled this reader, endeavoring, as he says in his Preface, "to present what I think is both the best and most representative of my writing-so far." Two decades later, it remains the only major collection of his work chosen by Abbey himself, a rich feast of fiction and prose by the singular American writer whom Larry McMurtry called "the Thoreau of the American West" and whom Alice Hoffman hailed as "the voice of all that is ornery and honorable."
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