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The Last Cheater's Waltz: Beauty and Violence in the Desert Southwest
The Last Cheater's Waltz Beauty and Violence in the Desert Southwest Author:Ellen Meloy Ellen Meloy describes a corner of desert hard by the San Juan River in southeastern Utah, a place long forsaken as implausible and impassable, of little use or value--a place that she calls home. Despite twenty years of carefully nurtured intimacy with this red-rock landscape, Meloy finds herself, one sunbaked morning, staring down at a dead liz... more »ard floating in her coffee and feeling suddenly unmoored. What follows is a quest that is both physical and spiritual, a search for home.« less