Good News Author:Edward Abbey In "Good News," Edward Abbey's acclaimed underground classic, the West is wild again. American civilization as the twentieth century knew it has crumbled. In the great Southwest, a new breed or settler, white and Indians together, is creating a new way of life in the wilderness -- a pastoral economy -- with skills and savvy resurre... more »cted from the pre-industrial past. Meanwhile, in a last surviving bastion of urban life, the remnats of the power elite are girding their armed forces to reimpose the old order. This is a land of horses and motorcycles, high-tech weaponry and primitive courage, and the struggle for the American future is mounting in intensity. No quarter is asked or given, and the outcome hangs in perilous balance against a background of magnificent nature and eternal human verities.« less
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A quick entertaining read, I love Abbey's writing. It's smart, funny, and supremely human. I would love to see this as a movie, but that would probably never happen.
This is an interesting post-apocalyptic read similar in some ways to Brin's postman. This story focuses on a world after social and economic collapse...