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In Bad Land, Jonathan Raban takes the reader on an enthralling journey into the least-populated and least-charted region in the United States – the Badlands of southeastern Montana – and finds there the heart and soul of the country. Bringing to life the extraordinary landscape of the prairie and the homesteaders whose dreams foundered there, and reaching forward from the start of the nineteenth century to the end of the twentieth, Bad Land uncovers the dangerous legacy of American innocence gone sour.
Jonathan Raban is the author of Passage to Juneau, Bad Land, Hunting Mister Heartbreak, Coasting, Old Glory, Arabia, and Soft City. Foreign Land (1985) was his first novel. His awards include the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Royal Society of Literature's Heinemann Award, the Thomas Cook Award, the PEN West Creative Nonfiction Award, the Pacific Northwest Booksellers' Award, and the Governor's Award of the State of Washington. His work has appeared in the New Yorker, Granta, Harpers, the New York Review of Books, Outside, Atlantic Monthly, New Republic, and other magazines.
In 1990 Raban, a British citizen, moved from London to Seattle, where he now lives with his daughter.
His newest novel, Waxwings was longlisted for the 2004 Booker Prize. A reissue of the late master travel writer's magnum opus, with a new introduction by Jane Smiley.
Jonathan Raban is the author of Passage to Juneau, Bad Land, Hunting Mister Heartbreak, Coasting, Old Glory, Arabia, and Soft City. Foreign Land (1985) was his first novel. His awards include the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Royal Society of Literature's Heinemann Award, the Thomas Cook Award, the PEN West Creative Nonfiction Award, the Pacific Northwest Booksellers' Award, and the Governor's Award of the State of Washington. His work has appeared in the New Yorker, Granta, Harpers, the New York Review of Books, Outside, Atlantic Monthly, New Republic, and other magazines.
In 1990 Raban, a British citizen, moved from London to Seattle, where he now lives with his daughter.
His newest novel, Waxwings was longlisted for the 2004 Booker Prize. A reissue of the late master travel writer's magnum opus, with a new introduction by Jane Smiley.