{"product_id":"the-last-cheaters-waltz-beauty-and-violence-in-the-desert-southwest-9780805040654","title":"The Last Cheater's Waltz: Beauty and Violence in the Desert Southwest","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Last Cheater's Waltz: Beauty and Violence in the Desert Southwest\u003c\/strong\u003e by Meloy, Ellen. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780805040654.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom the recipient of the 1997 Whiting Award.\n\nFeeling disconnected from the wildly beautiful desert that she has known intimately for twenty years, award-winning writer Ellen Meloy embarks on a search for home that is historical, scientific, and spiritual. Her \"Map of the Known Universe,\" devised to guide her quest, reveals extraordinary details of a physical link between the atomic age and her home on Utahs San Juan River. The Map grows to include Los Alamos, the Trinity A-test site, White Sands Missile Range, and primary sources of uranium.\n\nMeloy casts her naturalists eye on the Southwests \"geography of consequence,\" where she finds unusual local bestiaries, the bodies of long-buried neighbors, an underground bubble of nuclear physics in a national forest, and the rich textures of nature on her own eight acres of land. The story is multilayered and far-reaching, yet always infused with Meloys prodigious research, finely tuned prose, and wry humor.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Henry Holt","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44952282988597,"sku":"ByrdShop_080504065X","price":34.9,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780805040654_fa352fe3-d688-4b7f-9908-51612113d1df.jpg?v=1792818289","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-last-cheaters-waltz-beauty-and-violence-in-the-desert-southwest-9780805040654","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}