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Title: Blood Orchid

Other Available Formats:
Hardcover, 1995
Hardcover, 1997
Prebinding, 2002

Details
Language:        English

Size
Weight:        0.8 Pounds
Height:         8.5 Inches
Width:          5.8 Inches
Thickness:    1 Inches



Publisher Notes
In this ground-shaking, breath-taking cri de coeur, Bowden delves with love-driven fury for the roots of our brutal history in this once-brave New World. The figures he casts before us-from Pancho Villa to a modern-day drug lord, from General Sherman to a skid-row Sioux named Robert Sundance-trace a story not so much of rapaciousness as of fear and loathing. Bowden twines it with the natural history of the hammer orchid, a carnivore whose deceptive delicacy comes to stand for the terror and hypocrisy that have perverted our love of the land, its peoples, and our very natures.



Industry Reviews
"This book corrects the old mistakes, and perhaps even bends back and repairs...the errant DNA of our short, angry history upon this land. This book counsels, one last time, one more time, peace. Please read it."
Charles Bowden's new book is ordained to cause a wonderful nightmare of controversy. 'Blood Orchid' is gritty in the extreme, occasionally infuriating, often heartbreaking, finally a first-rate eye-opener to our soul history, the germinal material, vast and brooding, that is always left out of more orthodox (all of them) books about America."


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Book Details Summary: The title of this book is Blood Orchid and it was written by Charles Bowden. This edition of Blood Orchid is in a Paperback format. This books publish date is February 2002 and it has a suggested retail price of $26. There are pages in the book and it was published by North Point Pr. The 10 digit ISBN is 0865476292 and the 13 digit ISBN is 9780865476295. For the most current lowest price, Click Here.