7/4/2023 0 Comments Desert solitaire book![]() ![]() His novels weren’t selling, and his agent in New York suggested something different. He wasn’t there for long.īut in a corner of the saloon attached to the legal brothel at Ash Meadows, just across the Nevada line, the underemployed park ranger and philosopher worked on a new manuscript. Few remembered him, in Shoshone and Furnace Creek. Pushing 40 and owing child support, the wandering philosopher took whatever public-sector job he could get: seasonal park ranger, fire lookout, welfare case worker, school bus driver. Edward Abbey had published a couple of novels to little notice, although his postmodern western “The Brave Cowboy” had been adapted into an interesting black-and-white movie with Kirk Douglas called “Lonely Are the Brave.” He was overqualified, with a master’s degree in philosophy from the University of New Mexico, and he was broke again. Death Valley High School got a new bus driver in the fall of 1966. ![]()
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