The Brave Cowboy, Edward Abbey
The Brave Cowboy, Edward Abbey
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The Brave Cowboy
An Old Tale in a New Time

Author: Edward Abbey

Narrator: Keith Sellon-Wright

Unabridged: 11 hr 6 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 05/10/2022

Categories: Fiction, Western, Classic


Synopsis

From acclaimed author and literary genius Edward Abbey comes this classic novel that inspired the motion picture Lonely Are The Brave—a stirring and unforgettable tribute to the American hero and the American West.

The Brave Cowboy is a classic of modern Western literature. It follows Jack Burns, a loner at odds with modern civilization. He rides a feisty chestnut mare across the New West—a once beautiful land now smothered beneath airstrips and superhighways. An "anarchist cowboy," he lives by a personal code of ethics that sets him on a collision course with the keepers of law and order. After a prison breakout plan goes awry, he finds himself and his horse, Whisky, pursued across the desert towards the mountains that lead to Mexico, and to freedom. With local law enforcement, the feds, and the military on their tails, the cowboy and his horse race towards their destiny.

About Edward Abbey

Edward Abbey (1927-1989) was born in Home, Pennsylvania, and educated at the University of New Mexico and the University of Edinburgh. His many books include The Monkey Wrench Gang, Brave Cowboy, The Fool's Progress, and Down the River.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Tara on March 05, 2020

Unquestionably Edward Abbey is a "literary genius" as many have referenced. His language is both exquisite and poetic; however, I would have been happy with a little less of this descriptive prose so as to "get on with the chase." This story was an intensely suspenseful one which I was totally engro......more

Goodreads review by Bob on January 10, 2022

I really like Edward Abbey, for both his environmental politics and his formidable writing on the American West, fiction and nonfiction alike. The Brave Cowboy is perhaps my favorite Abbey novel (The Monkey Wrench Gang is right up there and a few others are close). It’s the story, as its subtitle (“......more