Good News

E Rutherford, New Jersey, U.S.A.: Penguin - Plume Book, 1991. First Plume Edition . Trade Paperback. Very Good. 5" x 8. 242 Pages. First Printing January 1991. Clean straight book with bright covers and no marks or stamps. Edward Abbey's acclaimed underground classic. The West is wild again. Ameerican civilication as the 20th century knew it has crumbled. In the great Southwest, a new breed of settler, whites and Indians together, is creating a new way of life in the wilderness, a pastoral economy, with skilss and savvy resurrected from the pre-industrial past. Meanwhile, in a last surviving bastion of urban life, the remnants 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 a perilous balance against a background of magnificent nature and eternal human verities.