Edward Abbey

A book review in The New York Times (11/19/06) caught my eye. Its title reads, "Forest Grump" and its byline: "The collected correspondence of Edward Abbey, cranky environmentalist." How intriguing...POSTCARDS FROM ED is a collection of high-energy, previously unpublished letters (mostly postcards) by the late author of The Monkey Wrench Gang and Desert Solitaire...this new work contains his observations on a wide variety of topics -- from sex, cheerleaders and the Bond girls -- to religion and the war in Vietnam. Now here's a gift for at least one person I know. /m