Details
When: Wednesdays, Oct 8 – 29 10:00 am – noon
Where: The Hampton Inn
Cost: $149.00 for 4 session(s)
Type: In Person
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Instructor: Gregory McNamee , a Tucson-based writer whose friendship with Ed Abbey spanned the last decade of Abbey’s life.
Gregory McNamee
The writings of Edward Abbey (1927–1989)—environmental activist, novelist, essayist, desert rat, curmudgeon—stand at the center of the literature of the modern Southwest. Desert Solitaire, the best known of his many books, has influenced dozens of other books about our region. The Brave Cowboy touched off a wave of “new westerns,” novels that put the western in the context of the post–World War II West. And The Monkey Wrench Gang, a comic yarn about sabotage in the name of wilderness, inspired a political movement. In this four-session series, we’ll read and discuss these three books and their place in Southwestern writing today.