Jonathan Troy is a brilliant, beautiful, intensely romantic, selfish and irresponsible (but never impossible) hero.
Jonathan Troy was begun as a creative writing project and is Edward Abbey\'s first novel..
His best-known works include Desert Solitaire , a non-fiction autobiographical account of his time as a park ranger at Arches National Park considered to be an iconic work of nature writing and a staple of early environmentalist writing; the novel The Monkey Wrench Gang , which has been cited as an inspiration by environmentalists and groups defending nature by various means, also called eco-warriors.
He traveled by foot, bus, hitchhiking, and freight train hopping.
Military, Abbey decided to explore the American southwest.
Eight months before his 18th birthday, when he would be faced with being drafted into the U.
S.
About the author Edward Abbey was born in Indiana County, Pennsylvania, in 1927.
This harsh, powerful, disturbing story is an extraordinary achievement for any novel, much less a first one.
The author never loses touch with this spirit on Jonathan\'s quest, and the cumulative effect becomes overwhelming.
Beneath the facade of callous brutality lies the real Jonathan, finely sensitive and introspective.
Edward Abbey writes with perception that measures the mood and experiences of his characters in every dimension.
In a way, Jonathan betrays them all, but his greatest, final betrayal is perhaps of himself.
There is Feathersmith, the effeminate teacher, who encourages Jonathan\'s sensitivity to the poetic, and Fatgut, the pathological liar, who is foil both for Jonathan\'s friendship and his rage.
There is Leafy who inspires his love and alone can discipline him.
There is Etheline, whose body is irresistibly attractive-and whom Jonathan successfully seduces.
There is his lonely, one-eyed father whose radical activity for the Industrial Workers of the World leads to a shattering climax in which Jonathan knows his own fidelity has somehow been vitally involved.
Despite his youth, he is a born leader who, like a colossus, dominates the people who come into his life, whether they have sought him out or have been sought after by him.
Jonathan Troy is a brilliant, beautiful, intensely romantic, selfish and irresponsible (but never impossible) hero
