Good News (novel)
Good News is a 1980 novel by Edward Abbey. Good News is Abbey's only work of science fiction and can be considered a distant sequel to The Brave Cowboy.[1]
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| Author | Edward Abbey |
|---|---|
| Genre | Science fiction |
| Publisher | Dutton |
Publication date | 1980, 1991 |
| Media type | print (hardback and paperback) |
| Pages | 242 (original) 256 (reissue) |
| ISBN | 0525115838 |
| Preceded by | The Brave Cowboy (partially) |
Summary
It is set in a Phoenix, Arizona of the near future after the economy and government have collapsed. Small bands of people (including Jack Burns, previously from The Brave Cowboy) are trying to live freely, but a would-be military dictator has other plans and is trying to set up a dictatorship using Phoenix as his base.
Publication history
The book was first published in October 1980 with 242 pages and later reissued in January 1991 with 256 pages by Plume.
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