Good News

In Good News Edward Abbeys acclaimed underground classic the West is wild again. American civilization as the twentieth 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 wildernessa pastoral economywith skills 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 re-impose 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 perilous balance against a background of magnificent nature and eternal human verities. With this boldly satirical imaginary world Abbey asks us to look around and take stock of what we valuebefore it is too late.