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Product Identifiers
PublisherUniversity of New Mexico Press
ISBN-100826309712
ISBN-139780826309716
eBay Product ID (ePID)201704
Product Key Features
Book TitleEdge of Taos Desert : an Escape to Reality
Number of Pages338 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year1987
TopicWomen, General, Literary, Women's Studies, Historical
IllustratorYes
FeaturesReprint
GenreSocial Science, Biography & Autobiography
AuthorMabel Dodge Luhan
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.9 in
Item Weight17.6 Oz
Item Length8.9 in
Item Width6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN86-025283
Dewey Edition19
Dewey Decimal978.9/05/0924
Edition DescriptionReprint
SynopsisIn 1917 Mabel Sterne, patron of the arts and spokeswoman for the New York avant-garde, came to the Southwest seeking a new life. This autobiographical account, long out-of-print, of her first few months in New Mexico is a remarkable description of an Easterner's journey to the American West. It is also a great story of personal and philosophical transformation. The geography of New Mexico and the culture of the Pueblo Indians opened a new world for Mabel. She settled in Taos immediately and lived there the rest of her life. Much of this book describes her growing fascination with Antonio Luhan of Taos Pueblo, whom she subsequently married. Her descriptions of the appeal of primitive New Mexico to a world-weary New Yorker are still fresh and moving. "I finished it in a state of amazed revelation . . . it is so beautifully compact and consistent. . . . It is going to help many another woman and man to 'take life with the talons' and carry it high."--Ansel Adams
LC Classification NumberCT275.L838A3 1987
