Neglected California Lit—Joshua Tree by ROBERT CABOT—pb—"FANTASTIC"

Description: • For Your Consideration: • A TRADE PAPERBACK edition of: • “THE JOSHUA TREE: A Novel” (North Atlantic Books, 1988) (Trade Paperback, First Edition Thus) • BY ROBERT CABOT • FOREWORD BY FARLEY MOWAT • A Neglected Avant-Garde Novel of the “New and Old West”? • “Through the voices of WILL SPEAR…and LILY, a 1960s California girl, CABOT sees people in depth and time as souls alive in the wandering generations, the waves of migration, settlement, conquest, and loss, as characters caught in the larger cycles of nature. The voice that imparts the ground tone is the meditative voice of the Joshua Tree itself, singing out of the profound depths of nature, standing as witness to the living creatures of the desert…. Drawing from the legendary heroic life of BILL KEYS, this classic story of the Old and New West uniquely captures the romance and tragedy of the American West.” —THE PUBLISHER • “When I first saw the manuscript of THE JOSHUA TREE twenty years ago, I wrote: ‘There are few genuine prose-poets around these days, and fewer still with anything to say. CABOT’s first book is a fantastic exception. He is a poet, and a damned good one, and he has words for us for love, and hope. He also has a warning, a gentle one, which is heard in the beating and dying hearts of men, women, and beasts—and the Joshua Tree. I don’t know when I have read such evocative and truly lovely writing, nor heard a man speak so truly of the curse that lies upon us all.’ “Much time has passed since THE JOSHUA TREE first moved me. Throughout the world, animate creation is in more jeopardy than ever before. But there is a bright spot. There are those amongst us who recognize the extraordinary danger to which our world is currently exposed and they are evoking a response from people of good will which may just possibly be our salvation. The message which ROBERT CABOT gives us in THE JOSHUA TREE is as fresh and vital as it ever was. Now that the book is being reissued, I am convinced that it will fill an enormous need and be as moving to people of today as it was to those of an earlier generation.” —FARWLEY MOWAT, FROM THE FOREWORD • “CABOT writes with stunning power.” —ROBERT KIRSH, LOS ANGELES TIMES • “An achievement for the art of letters…a book that belongs in print for the sake of the world.” —MALCOLM COWLEY • “Love in the Far West has rarely been depicted with more intensity or eloquence than one may find in these infinitely rewarding pages about a man and a woman in the High Mojave Desert…. This simple story is given depth and complexity by the resourcefulness of the author, with his technical innovations, introduction of symbols, and predilection for myth and ritual…. MR. CABOT’s first novel is an arresting venture which places unusual demands upon the reader….” —THE VIRGINIA QUARTERLY • “An eloquent achievement…. Pushes back the conventional limits of fiction.” —MARK SHORER • “Like a 19th-century camera, slow‐lensed but sharp, ROBERT CABOT’s eye fixes on a variety of scenes, portraits and still lifes: the alkali wastes of Death Valley; the massive tool‐kit of mining that clutters the desert; the enduring, desiccated people; the spare and eccentric sociology of the Mojave; the bitter pleasures of cowboying, gold‐hunting, ranching and farming in a hostile land…. THE JOSHUA TREE is a long, dense Symbolist poem, arranged in paragraphs of prose, reinforced by briefer Imagist poems trickling down the right‐hand margins, the whole decorated in random spots with petroglyphs, pictographs and cattle brands….” —NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW • “A hymn to man’s potentiality and a dirge for what he is…. A sensual experience from which deep truths will emerge, if you let them.” —MARY SNEAD BOGNER, OBSERVER • “Of great interest is that CABOT has taken a great risk in attempting this novel as a poem of life; such work can easily plunge into bathos if there is hesitation, loss of control, or preciosity. What keeps the work marvelously together is the author’s mastery of words, of places, times, his sense of present human reality and possibility—and of the temporal super-reality that pervades it. CABOT knows what he wants to say about finding life even in the desert of our days, and he says it with eloquence and love…. THE JOSHUA TREE is a gentle, musical, multi-layered novel which draws deeply, intimately, and authentically on the locales of Arizona, Boston, San Francisco, the Northern California mountains, and, above all, Death Valley and the high desert of the Mohave.” —JASCHA KESSLER, PROFESSOR OF MODERN LITERATURE, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA • “A novel of enormous talent and distinction, lyrical, resonant, evocative, unusual…written con amore…tremendous control and skill…a first-rate book.” —WILLIAM FADIMAN• ABOUT THE AUTHOR’S “THE SWEETEST WINE: THREE NOVELLAS” (1999):• “ROBERT CABOT’s new book is as good a piece of writing as anything coming out of the United States.” —FARLEY MOWAT • “Beautiful lyricism.” —JOHN NICHOLS • “Intensely dramatic, lyrically expressive and suffused with passionate feeling.... CABOT’s prose shimmers with poetic imagery.”—PUBLISHERS WEEKLY • “An exemplary trio of novellas, each occupied with the theme of reconciliation to oneself and one’s losses, presented in often stunning prose.” —KIRKUS REVIEWS • “A mourning song for an all but forsaken natural world.... A beauteous tribute to the natural world.” —REVIEW OF CONTEMPORARY FICTION • ABOUT THE AUTHOR’S “THE ISLE OF KHERIA” (2012): • “Told in an extraordinarily musical, sonorous, evocative voice. CABOT puts his characters against a rich background of human striving and natural tumult. He fearlessly shows how a loving man can be powerless to save his best friend, or anyone, from his own fatal search for a mystical answer to the soul’s questions.” —SUSAN CHEEVER • “Reminiscent of FOWLES’ THE MAGUS, DAVIES’ THE MANTICORE, and KAZANTZAKIS’ ZORBA, CABOT weaves narratives of Greece’s past and present with the gossamer threads of his prose. His descriptions of the natural world are spellbinding….”—ERIC UTNE, FOUNDER, UTNE READER • “A story crafted of myriad glimpses of an intimate world, poetic literary pointillism. A masterpiece.” —ROBERT FULLER, “SOMEBODIES AND NOBODEES,” & FORMER PRESIDENT OBERLIN COLLEGE • “CABOT has with rich, honest prose conjured up an extraordinary book that merges biography, legend and myth to recreate and continue loves, lives and conversations.”—ROGER JINKINSON, “AMERICAN IKAROS: THE SEARCH FOR KEVIN ANDREWS” • • For other details about this book, please see below. • TITLE: “THE JOSHUA TREE: A Novel” AUTHOR: ROBERT CABOT FOREWORD: FARLEY MOWAT TYPE: TRADE PAPERBACK NUMBER OF PAGES: 244 PUBLISHER, LOCALE, & YEAR: North Atlantic Books (Berkeley, California), 1988 EDITION: SECOND EDITION THUS* *RE: On the Copyright Page, the statement “Revised Second Edition, 1988” FIRST PUBLISHED: 1970 NOTE: This copy is NOT ex-library NOR a book-club edition. ISBN: 1-55643-039-6 CONDITION OF DUST JACKET: VERY GOOD.Despite being a Trade Paperback, this book was issued with a Dust Jacket: The price (9.95) is unclipped. Corners are lightly rubbed. Spine has scuffing at bottom and its tips are rubbed. Moderate shelf-wear at edges. Minor but persistent scratching & scuffing on sides, but text & imagery remain bright. (Now protected in a Brodart archival cover.) CONDITION of BOOK: VERY GOOD PLUS.Book is square. Boards are clean with sharp corners & spine tips. Spine is tight with lightly bumped tips. Text-block edges & endpapers are fine. Pages are faintly age-toned but also bright & clean with no writing, no underlining, no doodling, no stains, no foxing, no tears, etc. LOOKS UNREAD. SHIPPING NEWS: This book will be wrapped with care before being shipped in a cushioned and sturdy mailer. THANK YOU! ********************** /\___/\=•ᆺ•= “We believe it’s good business to be good to our customers.” *********** FLAPPINCAT’s HOUSE RULES ***********1. 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