Charles Bowden is clearly one of the greatest writers to come out of the desert Southwest, and Shumaker is absolutely right to say that his work represents “a new kind of writing,” one in which terror and exhilaration are virtually inseparable. In fact, Bowden may very well become for the current era what Mark Twain was for the 19th century: the one imagination (with an utterly original, powerful, and at times almost brutal prose style) who is uniquely capable of penetrating the American soul.
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