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Article: BOOK REPORT
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- The Washington Post
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- August 28, 1994
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Abbey's Hard Road
MOST AUTHORS, even major ones, recede after they die. John
Gardner, Bernard Malamud, Christopher Isherwood, Robert Penn Warren,
William Golding - venture into any bookstore, even a well-stocked
one, and you'll find only one or two of the many books written by
each. To keep your sales and reputation up, it helps to be alive.
You can go on talk shows, promote young talents, correct the record,
burnish your reputation. There's still a possibility you might write
that final masterpiece. Death forecloses a lot of options.
In this, as he did so often during his life, Edward Abbey is
going against the current. Five years after his death at age 62, he
looms larger than ever. ...