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Blues for Cannibals can be a hard book at times to work through

Blues for Cannibals can be a hard book at times to work through. The ideas become circular and repetitive but the beautiful writing often smooths over these rough spots, while at other times there is true beauty, touched with both horror and sadness, in its words and thoughts. Charles Bowden writes near the beginning that if he had life to live over again he "would never think that wars are events recorded in the book of history but realize they are actual and always take my hands from my ears and hear the cries of the slain

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Blues for Cannibals book. Blues for Cannibals continues the quest Bowden began in Blood Orchid-to discover the headwaters of the sickness that seeps through the American soul, and to consider what it might mean to come fully alive in a time of exalted consumption, global pillage, gated communities, and wholesale destruction of the environment.

Blues for Cannibals can be a hard book at times to work through. The section on food and his dying friends is the best part of the book and reverberates with a quiet power. Charles Bowden writes near the beginning that if he had life to live over again he "would never think that wars are events recorded in the book of history but realize they are actual and always take my hands from my ears and hear the cries of the slain.

Blues for Cannibals continues the quest Bowden began in Blood Orchid-to discover the headwaters of the sickness that seeps through the American soul, and to consider what it might mean to come fully alive in a time of exalted consumption, global pillage, gated communities, and wholesale destruction of the environment. beautiful writing, scary images, life. com User, December 14, 2002. Blues for Cannibals can be a hard book at times to work through.

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Charles Bowden lived and wrote in Tucson, Arizona. His recent books include Down by the River: Drugs, Money, Murder, and Family, Blues for Cannibals: Notes from Underground, Blood Orchid: An Unnatural History of America, and Desierto: Memories of the Future. Библиографические данные. Killing the Hidden Waters.

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Blues for Cannibals (2002). Sometimes a Great Notion, by Ken Kesey, Penguin Books, 2006, pp. xiii-xix. Exodus/Éxodo (text by Charles Bowden, photographs by Julián Cardona) (2008). Killing the Hidden Waters (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2003). A Shadow in the City : Confessions of an Undercover Drug Warrior (2005). Kill the Messenger: How the CIA's Crack-Cocaine Controversy Destroyed Journalist Gary Webb by Nick Schou; preface by Charles Bowden (2006). Some of the Dead are Still Breathing: Living in the Future (2009). Murder City: Ciudad Juárez and the Global Economy's New Killing Fields (2010).

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Painful, heartbreaking, and forewarning, Bowden at once tears us apart and yearns for us to find ourselves back together again.