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The second book in Charles Bowden's Unnatural History of the United States sextet, Blues for Cannibals is an elegiac rumination on our hunger for self-consumption and destruction as a species.

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A thrillingly good writer whose grandness of vision is only heightened by the bleak originality of his voice. -- Ron Hansen * New York Times Book Review *
A major literary work of profound social consciousness . . . [Bowden] writes with the intensity of Joan Didion, the voracious hunger of Henry Miller, the feral intelligence and irony of Hunter Thompson, and the wit and outrage of Edward Abbey . . . This is gutsy, soulful, pyrotechnic, significant. And transformative writing. -- Donna Seaman * Chicago Tribune *
A vivid, lyrical journey through the American Southwest . . . [but] this book is no travelogue. Rather, it is a visceral exploration of a much darker landscape, that of the human psyche. -- Debra Ginsberg * San Diego Union-Tribune *

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    A Paperback / softback by Charles Bowden, Amy Goodman, Denis Moynihan

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      Publisher: University of Texas Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 19/09/2018
      ISBN13: 9781477316870, 978-1477316870
      ISBN10: 1477316876

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      The second book in Charles Bowden's Unnatural History of the United States sextet, Blues for Cannibals is an elegiac rumination on our hunger for self-consumption and destruction as a species.

      Trade Review
      A thrillingly good writer whose grandness of vision is only heightened by the bleak originality of his voice. -- Ron Hansen * New York Times Book Review *
      A major literary work of profound social consciousness . . . [Bowden] writes with the intensity of Joan Didion, the voracious hunger of Henry Miller, the feral intelligence and irony of Hunter Thompson, and the wit and outrage of Edward Abbey . . . This is gutsy, soulful, pyrotechnic, significant. And transformative writing. -- Donna Seaman * Chicago Tribune *
      A vivid, lyrical journey through the American Southwest . . . [but] this book is no travelogue. Rather, it is a visceral exploration of a much darker landscape, that of the human psyche. -- Debra Ginsberg * San Diego Union-Tribune *

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