The Heart of the Monster
Publisher:
All Against the Haul
Publication Date:
20 December, 2010
ISBN:
9780615425931
Pages:
256
Subjects:
Nature
Available as:
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Trade Paper, 978-0-615-42593-1
Description:
THE HEART OF THE MONSTER consists of a 130-page essay by David James Duncan and a 130-page novella by Rick Bass. Duncan’s essay, entitled “The Heart of the Monster,” is a protest of the plan by oil corporations and politicians to turn the Northwest’s and Northern Rockies’ rivers, roads and wilderness into a tentacle of the largest and most destructive petroleum project in history: the Alberta Tar Sands. Bass’s novella, “A Short History of Montana, is a portrait of the backward evolution of a fictitious political figure as Big Oil and Big Energy’s concepts of power begin to stew in his head and eat away his heart.
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