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A history, panorama and reverie on the great, empty but lively state of Nevada. It is a book based on travels; but is about people and society, absurd hope and unshakeable dread. For Nevada represents the best and the worst, the frontier paradise and the future abyss. It is a book about landscape, and enormous, desolate views; the silence of the places where nothing happens, and the sudden, total roar of a military plane flying at 50 feet and 2000 mph. It describes the various shades of ochre and mauve; the astonishing extremes of weather; the religion of water; and the blur of red and black on the roulette wheel.
ISBN-13

9780316648516

ISBN-10

0316648515

Format

Hardcover

Pages

xv, 330 pages

Publisher

Little, Brown

Published On

2000-01-06


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