Bad Land: An American Romance

By Jonathan Raban
1996
ISBN: 0-330-34621-0
324 p.
$39.50 Cloth

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In Bad Land, Jonathan Raban takes the reader on an enthralling journey into one of the least populated and least known regions of the United States, and finds there the heart and soul of the country. Seemingly empty, arid, dotted with low buttes and scored with dry creek-beds, eastern Montana looks like a landscape in an allegory - and so it proves, in this brilliant and revelatory book. For the dusty prairie on the edge of the Badlands turns out to hold the key to the puzzle of modern America. A glittering tragi-comedy, Bad Land, is Jonathan Raban's most moving and imaginative book; its descriptive power will delight the reader, even as its conclusions will disturb. It uncovers the dangerous legacy of American innocence gone sour.

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