Book Mole: Love and Horror in the American West

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Air date: 
Mon, 05/19/2014 - 12:00am
Larry Bowlden reviews Poe Ballantine's nonfiction Love and Terror on the Howling Road to Nowhere
Larry Bowlden reviews Love and Terror on the Howling Road to Nowhere by Poe Ballantine, which mixes personal memoir with the mystery of his neighbor's violent death in small-town Nebraska. Read with other recent writing about the American West, Ballantine's book reveals how, in Larry's words, "conventional morality so often teams up with economic exploitation to subjugate people and to strip the land."

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