Finding Abbey: The Search for Edward Abbey and His Hidden Desert Grave, by Sean Prentiss
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Finding Abbey: The Search for Edward Abbey and His Hidden Desert Grave, by Sean Prentiss
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When the great environmental writer Edward Abbey died in 1989, four of his friends buried him secretly in a hidden desert spot that no one would ever find. The final resting place of the Thoreau of the American West remains unknown and has become part of American folklore. In this book a young writer who went looking for Abbey’s grave combines an account of his quest with a creative biography of Abbey. Sean Prentiss takes readers across the country as he gathers clues from his research, travel, and interviews with some of Abbey’s closest friends—including Jack Loeffler, Ken “Seldom Seen” Sleight, David Petersen, and Doug Peacock. Along the way, Prentiss examines his own sense of rootlessness as he attempts to unravel Abbey’s complicated legacy, raising larger questions about the meaning of place and home. ABOUT THE AUTHOR After years of searching for the ghost of Edward Abbey across the American West, Sean Prentiss has settled with his wife, Sarah, on a small lake in northern Vermont. He now teaches creative writing at Norwich University and is the coeditor of The Far Edges of the Fourth Genre: An Anthology of Explorations in Creative Nonfiction. ACCLAIM “Prentiss offers fine, thoughtful readings of Abbey’s writing, and he applies it judiciously to his life and ours.”--Kirkus Reviews
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- Published on: 2015-03-05
- Released on: 2015-03-05
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Finding Abbey: The Search for Edward Abbey and His Hidden Desert Grave, by Sean Prentiss Review "Finding Abbey is philosophical, poetic, a creative biography and a loving, evocative celebration of a controversial life."--Shelf Awareness"Readers will find something to envy in Prentiss's exploration. While having all the makings of an expertly researched piece of narrative journalism, Prentiss also turns the magnifying glass on himself. What is most commendable about Finding Abbey is [Prentiss's] willingness to go the distance and explore, to think deeply about one of modern America's most outspoken critics, and to inspire others to look for what [Prentiss] rightfully calls 'a life worth living.'"--Vermont Sports Magazine"Even for readers unfamiliar with Abbey or his writings, Finding Abbey's insights into this problematic man are compelling."--Seven Days"[Prentiss] locates and interviews Abbey's inner circle of friends, and in these faithfully recorded scenes his book . . . catches fire--including a conversation with Doug Peacock, the ex-Green Beret model for Abbey's monkey-wrenching Hayduke, who in real life keeps a .357 Magnum by his side. The final chapters of Mr. Prentiss's quest are suspenseful and winning. . . . Finding Abbey is a touching book."--Wall Street Journal"[Finding Abbey] brings us on a fascinating journey. Prentiss is especially able to describe in evocative detail the feeling of mountains and deserts and plains. He gives us an essence of the maddening, fiery, outspoken personality of Edward Abbey."--The Hardwick Gazette"What's best about Sean Prentiss's [Finding Abbey] . . . is that the author loves and understands what made Southwest writer Edward Abbey tick, why Abbey's writing is so resonant and why he was--and still is--so important."--Durango Herald"Prentiss successfully demonstrates his ability to write an intriguing and compelling story that simultaneously informs, inspires, and entertains. His vivid imagery and unique interviewing style adds depth and passion to his search, resulting in an exceptional narrative that flows smoothly and conveys his admiration for Abbey and the American West. Finding Abbey is a journey well worth taking."--Foreword Reviews"A worthy contribution to the Abbey canon. . . . Highly recommended for all interested in the American Southwest, environmentalism, and modern literature."--Library Journal"Prentiss offers fine, thoughtful readings of Abbey's writing, and he applies it judiciously to his life and ours."--Kirkus Reviews"The significance of Abbey in Prentiss's own life is revealed through precise but emotional prose. The effect is both grounding and electrifying."--Weekly Alibi"Prentiss reveals the power of Ed Abbey's lasting call to action, not just as a Monkey Wrencher, but also as an ethicist who lives by Ed's own motto, 'Follow the truth no matter where it leads.'"--Jack Loeffler, author of Adventures with Ed: A Portrait of Abbey"In Finding Abbey, author Sean Prentiss presents us at once with an intriguing shotgun overview of the late southwestern literary cult hero Edward Abbey's life and work, interspersed with an intriguingly unfolding chronicle of Prentiss's own search for direction, meaning, and art in life. And best of all--what Abbey would like best--this book has soul. The somewhat sensational title, by the way, is merely metaphorical. Or is it?"--David Petersen, editor of Confessions of a Barbarian: Selections from the Journals of Edward Abbey
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After years of searching for the ghost of Edward Abbey across the American West, Sean Prentiss has settled with his wife, Sarah, on a small lake in northern Vermont. He now teaches creative writing at Norwich University and is the coeditor of The Far Edges of the Fourth Genre: An Anthology of Explorations in Creative Nonfiction.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful. A tribute to Cactus Ed, a journey all his fans will enjoy. A great read and a rejuvenation of Ed Abbey's enduring legacy. By Cactus Ed As a lifelong fan of Edward Abbey I have collected all of his books, as well as many articles and biographies over the years. I think the last book Abbey-related was a collection of his Letters ( entitled Postcards From Ed ), published in 2006. So it's been a while since we've had anything new about Cactus Ed!Now Sean Prentiss has given us a great new story about his search for Edward Abbey. Not, as the book's subtitle implies, just a search for Abbey's hidden grave somewhere in the desert southwest, but a search covering his entire life, from Ed's roots in Pennsylvania to all the places he called home in between. This search took Prentiss a fair amount of time and covered a lot of miles. Prentiss takes the reader places Ed's earlier biographers didn't go, places I would have loved to visit if only I had the time. It was a pleasure to travel with Sean in this book. A real pleasure.This is an intimate, well-written book that any and every fan of Edward Abbey will enjoy immensely. I know I did!
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful. Finding Abbey is the work of a wannabe By Mary Sojourner "a little wiggle dance" - I found this book sophomoric in the extreme. I was a friend and student and co-worker of Edward Abbey. He wanted his grave hidden. And, as for all the sycophants and hangers-on, especially those who've published books about him, he would have written a scathing few lines about them - if that. Ed Abbey was, in all the finest and the worst ways, just a person.
5 of 6 people found the following review helpful. Like many Abbey admirers By Shane Griffin He’s the father of the modern environmental movement, the Thoreau of the West, the inspiration for Earth First!, he’s Edward Abbey. Edward Abbey died in 1989 and he was buried somewhere in the American Southwest. His friends, at Abbey’s request, took him from the hospital to allow him to die the way he wanted to—in the high desert of Arizona surrounded by his closest friends who gave him an illegal burial and vowed to keep the location of his grave a secret. Like many Abbey admirers, I have often wondered where his final resting place is. I discovered Abbey’s works after his death, and I have come to listen and, I mean really listen, to his words and I have made them my own environmental commandment, and where I make my stand. But I too wonder about his grave and the mystery associated with it adds to the benevolence of Abbey. He is larger than life. I carry his texts like a guidebook on my own environmental activist journey. If any of you had ever read Abbey, you know him to be a hypocrite, a kind man, but a man who spoke the truth—the truth about himself. In an age where everyone is fake and tries so hard to please everybody else, Abbey did not. This added to the complexity of the man and his anarchist beliefs. Bear no allegiance to nobody, except yourself, stand upright. Stand up for who you are and bear down to fight those who stand against you. Sean Prentiss is an Abbey follower. He has been haunted with Abbey’s words for most of his life and somehow or for some reason, he has sought the location of his grave, trying to get into the inner circle of Abbey’s closest friends. Prentiss has some good passages and he has made me want to go on the journey into the Cabreza Prieta to look and search for the Master’s final resting place. But Sean is a lost soul, such as myself, I am lost because things just don’t seem right to me in this age where everything mechanized and globalized. I have wondered myself if this is the disaster that Abbey had talked about and warned to avoid. I am also jealous, that Prentiss had interviews with Abbeys closest friends, Jack Loeffler, Ken Sleight, Dave Peterson, and Doug Peacock. I would like to sit down with each one of them and just talk about Ed. I do not have the ambition, nor the need to seek out the grave of Edward Abbey, but Sean Prentiss, thought it would be a good idea. He seemed lost, like most of us had, who had live in the West and have been mesmerized by the geology, the feeling that man is a mere blip on the radar of earth’s trajectory while standing in the shadow of a half-lit canyon looking up at the snow covered peaks. Prentiss is a displaced Western romantic, as am I, but he has gone beyond what I have thought about doing to find Abbey’s grave, he has actually sought it out and claims to have found it. I can say that the mystery of Abbey is knowing that I don’t want to find his grave, that he is alive in the spirit of the American Southwest and that is all that I need to know. There are some great passages in the book, as Prentiss himself comes to realization that the American Southwest is Abbey country and the great author’s spirit is everywhere. We stand in the back of beyond, beyond the wall, where fire is on the mountain, where brave cowboys still ride, journeying home down the river, in the solitary desert, in the hidden canyon where Seldom Seen and Hayduke still live, where good news is still sung, where one man can share his soliloquy, his voice crying in the wilderness. That passage summed up Abbey for me, and I didn’t care at that point if Prentiss and his noble friend Haus found Abbey’s grave. But they claimed they did, and apparently there is a tombstone there with the last Abbey quote, “No Comment.” I refuse to believe this. I believe that Abbey didn’t want to disrupt the natural landscape, that he wanted to be the landscape, the buzzard on patrol high in the sky, the mountain lion in shadows, and the desert rivers running free forever. I am not sure if Prentiss found Abbey’s grave, I would like to think that he did not, that maybe he contributed his own monkey wrenching by sending many more lost Abbey followers in to the Southwest in search of answers, when all that they have to do to find answers is to look around them, the spirit of the great Abbey is everywhere. He is in the struggle against corporate greed, urban expansion, industrialization, and he is the light in the setting sun, the warmth when all that the world feels is a cold draft coming from their corporate leaders. If I found Abbey’s grave and it did in fact have a tombstone, I would deface this great man’s grave and throw the stone into the nearest arroyo in the Cabreza Prieta and bury it. Because that is truly what I think he would want. In his death, Abbey is not a man, but a place, he is the environmental philosophy, the land ethic that Leopold championed. Prentiss leads the Abbeyites to no closer of an end than they thought when they started this book. He believes he is part of the inner circle, when really he is not. There is only one Edward Abbey and there will be no other. This book is nothing more than a post-adolescent exploration of a man tired of this world, who lives on through the work he left behind and the quiet heat of the calm desert. I leave you with a quote that Edward Abbey gave as a benediction during a speech he gave in Utah. May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds. May your rivers flow without end. Meandering through pastoral valleys tinkling with bells, past temples and castles and poets’ towers into a dark primeval forest where tigers belch and monkeys howl, through miasmal and mysterious swamps infested with crocodiles and down into a desert of red rock, blue mesas, domes and pinnacles and grottos of endless stone, and down, down again into a deep vast ancient unknown chasm where bars of sunlight blaze on profiled cliffs, where deer walk across the white sand beaches, where storms come and go as lightning clangs upon the high crops, where something strange and more beautiful and more full of wonder than you deepest dreams waits for you beyond the next turning of the canyon walls. That is where Abbey lives. In the words that he gave us and the imagination and the courage to stand up for what we all believe in, but are afraid to make a stand.
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