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Author: Charles Bowden Publisher: University of Texas Press ISBN: 1477315799 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 120
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A passionate advocate for preserving wilderness and fighting the bureaucratic and business forces that would destroy it, Edward Abbey (1927–1989) wrote fierce, polemical books such as Desert Solitaire and The Monkey Wrench Gang that continue to inspire environmental activists. In this eloquent memoir, his friend and fellow desert rat Charles Bowden reflects on Abbey the man and the writer, offering up thought-provoking, contrarian views of the writing life, literary reputations, and the perverse need of critics to sum up “what he really meant and whether any of it was truly up to snuff.” The Red Caddy is the first literary biography of Abbey in a generation. Refusing to turn him into a desert guru, Bowden instead recalls the wild man in a red Cadillac convertible for whom liberty was life. He describes how Desert Solitaire paradoxically “launched thousands of maniacs into the empty ground” that Abbey wanted to protect, while sealing his literary reputation and overshadowing the novels that Abbey considered his best books. Bowden also skewers the cottage industry that has grown up around Abbey’s writing, smoothing off its rougher (racist, sexist) edges while seeking “anecdotes, little intimacies . . . pieces of the True Beer Can or True Old Pickup Truck.” Asserting that the real essence of Abbey will always remain unknown and unknowable, The Red Caddy still catches gleams of “the fire that from time to time causes a life to become a conflagration.”
Author: Charles Bowden Publisher: University of Texas Press ISBN: 1477315799 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 120
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A passionate advocate for preserving wilderness and fighting the bureaucratic and business forces that would destroy it, Edward Abbey (1927–1989) wrote fierce, polemical books such as Desert Solitaire and The Monkey Wrench Gang that continue to inspire environmental activists. In this eloquent memoir, his friend and fellow desert rat Charles Bowden reflects on Abbey the man and the writer, offering up thought-provoking, contrarian views of the writing life, literary reputations, and the perverse need of critics to sum up “what he really meant and whether any of it was truly up to snuff.” The Red Caddy is the first literary biography of Abbey in a generation. Refusing to turn him into a desert guru, Bowden instead recalls the wild man in a red Cadillac convertible for whom liberty was life. He describes how Desert Solitaire paradoxically “launched thousands of maniacs into the empty ground” that Abbey wanted to protect, while sealing his literary reputation and overshadowing the novels that Abbey considered his best books. Bowden also skewers the cottage industry that has grown up around Abbey’s writing, smoothing off its rougher (racist, sexist) edges while seeking “anecdotes, little intimacies . . . pieces of the True Beer Can or True Old Pickup Truck.” Asserting that the real essence of Abbey will always remain unknown and unknowable, The Red Caddy still catches gleams of “the fire that from time to time causes a life to become a conflagration.”
Author: Charles Bowden Publisher: University of Texas Press ISBN: 1477315810 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 109
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The author of Blood Orchid and Blue Desert presents a biography on his friend, the writer and environmentalist, Edward Abbey. A passionate advocate for preserving wilderness and fighting the bureaucratic and business forces that would destroy it, Edward Abbey (1927–1989) wrote fierce, polemical books such as Desert Solitaire and The Monkey Wrench Gang that continue to inspire environmental activists. In this eloquent memoir, his friend and fellow desert rat Charles Bowden reflects on Abbey the man and the writer, offering up thought-provoking, contrarian views of the writing life, literary reputations, and the perverse need of critics to sum up “what he really meant and whether any of it was truly up to snuff.” The Red Caddy is the first literary biography of Abbey in a generation. Refusing to turn him into a desert guru, Bowden instead recalls the wild man in a red Cadillac convertible for whom liberty was life. He describes how Desert Solitaire paradoxically “launched thousands of maniacs into the empty ground” that Abbey wanted to protect, while sealing his literary reputation and overshadowing the novels that Abbey considered his best books. Bowden also skewers the cottage industry that has grown up around Abbey’s writing, smoothing off its rougher (racist, sexist) edges while seeking “anecdotes, little intimacies . . . pieces of the True Beer Can or True Old Pickup Truck.” Asserting that the real essence of Abbey will always remain unknown and unknowable, The Red Caddy still catches gleams of “the fire that from time to time causes a life to become a conflagration.” “An unflinchingly honest writer addresses the death of his friend and kindred spirit Edward Abbey. . . . This belated publication should not only send readers back to Abbey, but also back to Bowden’s work. A memoir about an American original by an American original, a literary journalist who merits more than a regional readership.” —Kirkus Reviews “Bowden, a journalist and author who died in 2014, knew Abbey better than most, perhaps, and attempts to paint a picture of the southwestern iconoclast in The Red Caddy. Discovered on his computer after his death, it’s a fascinating artifact that’s by turns charming and maddening—just like Abbey himself.” —NPR “With its elegant prose and uncompromising vision, this is vintage Bowden.” —Arizona Daily Star,Southwest Books of the Year
Author: Douglas Caddy Publisher: TrineDay ISBN: 1634241150 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 211
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Douglas Caddy was the attorney for E. Howard Hunt, one of the key persons involved in both the JFK assassination and Watergate. Being There: Eye Witness to History is his autobiographical account of these events by accidentally being in the right place at the right time or the wrong place at the wrong time. Episodes include being with Lee Harvey Oswald and Guy Banister in New Orleans, investigating the founding of the modern conservative movement and where it went wrong, looking inside the JFK assassination and the Watergate Conspiracy, uncovering JFK's secret son and why he came to fear for his life, analyzing LBJ's murder victims and his rise to the presidency, interpreting the Moody Foundation Scandal, Russia's involvement in Trump's election, and more.
Author: Tripp Bowden Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing Inc. ISBN: 1602396825 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 225
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Though he was born and raised in Augusta, Georgia, home of fabled Augusta National and The Masters, all ten?year?old Trip Bowden knew about golf was that it took up too much of his father?s time. But all that changed once Bowden?s father, a local doctor, introduced him to one of his patients, legendary Augusta National Caddy Master Freddie Bennett. The two formed a friendship and Bowden soon absorbed Bennett?s passion for the sport. But it was the lessons Bennett taught Bowden off the course that had the profoundest impact on his life. Soon to be a major motion picture, Freddie & Me is a heartwarming tale of an uncommon bond forged through sport.
Author: Dick Burdette Publisher: ISBN: 9781522905967 Category : Languages : en Pages : 354
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DETROITLate September, 1952 Mechanically, stylistically, there was nothing distinctive about the '53 Caddy four-door sedan when it came rolling off the assembly line. It was no different from scores of others emerging that day from the womb of the world's largest automobile manufacturing company. Its wheels were enhanced with shiny chrome covers, in the center of which glistened a bright round red and gold Cadillac emblem. A gold Cadillac V emblem adorned both the nose of the hood and the center of the trunk lid. Alas, some majestic birds fly higher, some mountains, some stars, some rainbows, loom larger, brighter, more regal, more imposing than others. And so it was for the '53 Caddy four-door sedan. For in the rarified air of automobile aristocracy it occupied, both in prestige and in price, the bottom of the top of the line below the two-door 62 series coup, the Coupe DeVille the 62 series convertible, Coupe DeVille convertible , and far, far below the gem of all 1953 crown-jewel models, the revolutionary, limited-edition, wrap-around-windshield El Dorado convertible. And so, as familiarity sometimes breeds contempt, so it was for the relative snob-appeal stature of the '53 Caddy four-door sedan. It wwas destined to be looked up to by some, down on by others. What follows is the partially, or possibly, or at least every 50 pages or so, true story of one of them, a meandering madcap journey that began in Detroit, proceeded at one time or another to such well known places as Toledo, Ohio, Orlando, Fla., Mobile, Ala., Kansas City, Mo., Lexington, Ky. and Denver, Colorado as well as intermittent stops in such lesser and little-known spots as Otterville, Ohio; Carey, Ohio; Findlay, Ohio; Possum Hollow, Ky.; Sandy Hook, Ky.; Wakefield, Ohio; Portsmouth ,Ohio; Liberty, Ky.; Corbin, Ky.; Hamilton, Ohio; Harlan County, Ky.; Calvary, Ga.; Crescent City, Fla.; Two Egg, Fla.; Hot Coffee, Miss.; Pine Ridge, Ark,, Peculiar, Mo.; Oakley, Kan ; Burlington, Colo.; Red Feather Lakes, Colo. and Wellington, Colo. But '53 Caddy isn't so much the story about the car as it is that of those who adored, deplored, sold, purchased, pampered, traded, stole, wrecked, dismantled, repaired and ultimately tried to save it from the crusher; a tale of survival as well as a moveable smorgasbord of slapstick human passions, prejudices, beliefs, blunders, fears, fantasies follies, and foibles. And if that '53 Caddy could talk perhaps this is the story, or one reasonably similar, it would tell.
Author: Hilary McKay Publisher: Hachette Children's ISBN: 1444903497 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 187
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From the winner of the Costa Children's Book Award 2018. Meet Saffy, Indigo, Rose and Caddy Casson. This colourful and hilarious series will make you wish you were part of the family! Best friends, boyfriends, problem parents, pink hair. Brothers, sisters, fireworks and unexpected babies. Welcome to Caddy's World. Travel back to when Caddy was a young girl and Rose had not been born, in this moving and comical prequel to the award-winning Saffy's Angel. 'Full of warmth, vitality and irrepressible good humour' Guardian Saffy's Angel won the Whitbread Children's Book Award, and book 3, Permanent Rose, was shortlisted for the same award, celebrating McKay's talent for conveying the anarchic bedlam of family life.
Author: Dan Caddy Publisher: Harper Collins ISBN: 0062351974 Category : Humor Languages : en Pages : 166
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The official tie-in book to the wildly popular Facebook page, featuring brand-new crazy, off-the-wall, outrageously funny, and downright “awesome” pearls of wisdom from real-life drill sergeants and instructors from all branches of the military. Sweat dries. Blood clots. Bones heal. Suck it up, buttercup. After his deployment in Afghanistan, Dan Caddy began swapping great drill sergeant stories by e-mail with other combat veterans—an exchange with friends that would grow into the dedicated Facebook page, “Awesome Sh*t My Drill Sergeant Said.” But what began as a comedic outlet has evolved into a robust online community and support network that conducts fundraisers for and donates to military charities, has helped veterans struggling with PTSD and other issues, and on numerous occasions, literally saved lives. Now, Caddy shares more great DS stories—most never before seen—in this humorous collection. Often profane, sometimes profound, yet always entertaining, these rants from real life soldiers are interspersed with lively sidebars, Top 10 lists, stories from fans, one-liners, and more. For anyone who has suffered a hard-ass manager (in uniform or not), Awesome Sh*t My Drill Sergeant Said will add a much needed dose of humor to the day.
Author: Steve Rushin Publisher: Grove Press ISBN: 9780802142115 Category : Literary Collections Languages : en Pages : 276
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A collection of the best of Steve Rushin's columns and features, this enlightening, hilarious, and often unexpectedly heartwarming book leaves readers laughing about the sports they didn't know existed, and is a reminder about why sports are loved.
Author: Ace Atkins Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 0525539484 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 466
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Buried secrets, dirty lies, and unbridled greed and ambition raise the stakes down South in the lauded crime series from New York Times bestselling author Ace Atkins. Twenty years ago, Brandon Taylor was thought to be just another teen boy who ended his life too soon. That's what almost everyone in Tibbehah County, Mississippi, said after his body and hunting rifle were found in the Big Woods. Now two New York-based reporters show up asking Sheriff Quinn Colson questions about the Taylor case. What happened to the evidence? Where are the missing files? Who really killed Brandon? Quinn wants to help. After all, his wife Maggie was a close friend of Brandon Taylor. But Quinn was just a kid himself in 1997, and these days he's got more on his plate than twenty-year-old suspicious death. He's trying to shut down the criminal syndicate that's had a stranglehold on Tibbehah for years, trafficking drugs, stolen goods, and young women through the MidSouth. Truck stop madam Fannie Hathcock runs most of that action, and has her eyes on taking over the whole show. And then there's Senator Jimmy Vardaman, who's cut out the old political establishment riding the Syndicate's money and power--plus a hefty helping of racism and ignorance--straight to the governor's office. If he manages to get elected, the Syndicate will be untouchable. Tibbehah will be lawless. Quinn's been fighting evil and corruption since he was a kid, at home or as a U.S. Army Ranger in Afghanistan and Iraq. This time, evil may win out.
Author: Oliver Horovitz Publisher: Avery ISBN: 159240863X Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 338
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A caddie since he was twelve and a golfer sporting a 1.8 handicap, Ollie decides to spend his gap year, pre Harvard, in St. Andrews: a town with the U.K.'s highest number of pubs per capita and home to the Old Course, golf's most famous eighteen holes, where he enrolls in the St. Andrews Links Trust caddie trainee program. Initially, the notoriously brusque veteran caddies treat Ollie like a pest. But after a year of waking up at 4:30 A.M. every morning and looping two rounds a day, Ollie earns their grudging respect. A charming coming-of-age memoir.
Author: Charles Bowden
Author: Charles Bowden
Author: Charles Bowden
Author: Douglas Caddy
Author: Tripp Bowden
Author: Dick Burdette
Author: Hilary McKay
Author: Dan Caddy
Author: Steve Rushin
Author: Ace Atkins
Author: Oliver Horovitz