The Last Cheater's Waltz

by Meloy, Ellen

• ISBN13: 9780816521531
• ISBN10: 0816521530
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-01-01
• Publisher: Univ of Arizona Pr

Summary

In this abundant space and isolation,the energy lords extract their bounty of natural resources, and the curators of mass destruction once mined their egregious weapons and reckless acts. It is a land of absolutes, of passion and indifference, lush textures and inscrutable tensions. Here violence can push beauty to the edge of a razor blade. . . .Thus Ellen Meloy describes a corner of desert hard by the San Juan River in southeastern Utah, a place long forsaken as implausible and impassable, of little use or value--a place that she calls home. Despite twenty years of carefully nurtured intimacy with this red-rock landscape, Meloy finds herself, one sunbaked morning, staring down at a dead lizard floating in her coffee and feeling suddenly unmoored. What follows is a quest that is both physical and spiritual, a search for home.

Table of Contents

Prologue	p. 1
Tse Valley I: Alien Pebbles	p. 9
The Terrain of Strategic Death	p. 23
Tse Valley II: Fossil River	p. 87
Learning to Find Home	p. 97
Spitting Photons Through Vacuums of Folded Space	p. 147
The Last Cheater's Waltz	p. 183
Epilogue	p. 219
Acknowledgments	p. 227
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