Edward Abbey

Edward Abbey

Edward Abbey

Edward Paul Abbey (29 de enero de 1927, Home, Pensilvania - 14 de marzo de 1989, Oracle, Arizona) fue un escritor y ambientalista estadounidense.

Trabajó como guardabosques y vigilante de incendios para el National Park Service. Escribió varios libros sobre la intrusión de la cultura del consumo en el entorno natural estadounidense.

Desert Solitaire de 1968, es uno de sus trabajos más conocidos, situado en el suroeste de Utah. Su novela de 1975 The Monkey Wrench Gang, describe las hazañas de una guerrilla de ecologistas, inspirada en numerosos activistas de la vida real. Murió debido a una hemorragia esofágica, a consecuencia de las complicaciones de una operación quirúgica que sufrió.

Contenido

Obras

Ficción

  • Jonathan Troy (1954) (ISBN 1-131-40684-2)
  • The Brave Cowboy (1956) (ISBN 0-8263-0448-6)
  • Fire on the Mountain (1962) (ISBN 0-8263-0457-5)
  • Black Sun (1971) (ISBN 0-88496-167-2)
  • The Monkey Wrench Gang (1975) (ISBN 0-397-01084-2)
  • Good News (1980) (ISBN 0-525-11583-8)
  • The Fool's Progress (1988) (ISBN 0-8050-0921-3)
  • Hayduke Lives (1989) (ISBN 0-316-00411-1)
  • Earth Apples: The Poetry of Edward Abbey (1994) (ISBN 0-312-11265-3)

Prosa

  • Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness (1968) (ISBN 0-8165-1057-1)
  • Appalachian Wilderness (1970)
  • Slickrock (1971) (ISBN 0-87156-051-8)
  • Cactus Country (1973)
  • The Journey Home (1977) (ISBN 0-525-13753-X)
  • The Hidden Canyon (1977)
  • Abbey's Road (1979) (ISBN 0-525-05006-X)
  • Desert Images (1979)
  • Down the River (1982) (ISBN 0-525-09524-1)
  • In Praise of Mountain Lions (1984)
  • Beyond the Wall (1984) (ISBN 0-03-069299-7)
  • One Life at a Time, Please (1988) (ISBN 0-8050-0602-8)
  • A Voice Crying in the Wilderness: Notes from a Secret Journal (1989)
  • Confessions of a Barbarian: Selections from the Journals of Edward Abbey, 1951-1989 (1994) (ISBN 0-316-00415-4)

Cartas

  • Cactus Chronicles
  • Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast (2006) (ISBN 1-57131-284-6)

Antologías

  • Slumgullion Stew: An Edward Abbey Reader (1984)
  • The Best of Edward Abbey (1984)
  • The Serpents of Paradise: A Reader (1995)
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