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001			on1008773790
003			OCoLC
005			20200214154800.0
008			171013s2018 nyuab b 000 0 eng
010			_a 2017047910
020			_a0374535809
020			_a9780374535803 _q(softcover)
035			_a(OCoLC)1008773790
040			_aDLC _beng _erda _cDLC _dOCLCO _dMiTN
042			_apcc
050	0	0	_aPS3623 .H42985 _bA6 2018
092			_a814.6 W564A 2018
100	1		_aWheeler, Joshua, _d1984-
240	1	0	_aEssays. _kSelections
245	1	0	_aAcid West : _bessays / _cJoshua Wheeler.
250			_aFirst edition.
264		1	_aNew York : _bMCD x FSG Originals, _c2018.
300			_a395 pages : _billustrations, map ; _c20 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages [383]-395).
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references.
505	0		_aThe Light of God -- Children of the Gadget -- After the Fall -- So Let All the Martians Come Home to Roost -- Truth or Consequences at the Gateway to Space -- Before the Fall -- Raggedy, Raggedy Wabbitman -- Living Room -- Things Most Surely Believed -- The Glitch in the Videogame Graveyard -- Keep Alamogordo Beautiful -- A Million Tiny Daggers.
520			_a"A rollicking debut book of essays that takes readers on a trip through the muck of American myths that have settled in the desert of our country's underbelly" -- _cProvided by publisher.
520			_a"Early on July 16, 1945, Joshua Wheeler's great grandfather awoke to a flash, and then a long rumble: the world's first atomic blast filled the horizon north of his ranch in Alamogordo, New Mexico. Out on the range, the cattle had been bleached white by the fallout. Acid West, Wheeler's stunning debut collection of essays, is full of these mutated cows: vestiges of the Old West that have been transformed, suddenly and irrevocably, by innovation. Traversing the New Mexico landscape his family has called home for seven generations, Wheeler excavates and reexamines these oddities, assembling a cabinet of narrative curiosities: a man who steps from the stratosphere and free-falls to the desert; a treasure hunt for buried Atari video games; a village plagued by the legacy of atomic testing; a lonely desert spaceport; a UFO festival during the paranoid Summer of Snowden. The radical evolution of American identity, from cowboys to drone warriors to space explorers, is a story rooted in southern New Mexico. Acid West illuminates this history, clawing at the bounds of genre to reveal a place that is, for better or worse, home. By turns intimate, absurd, and frightening, Acid West is an enlightening deep-dive into a prophetic desert at the bottom of America" -- _cFrom Amazon.
650		0	_aNational characteristics, American.
650		0	_aPopular culture _xEffect of technological innovations on _zUnited States.
650		0	_aTechnological innovations _xSocial aspects _zUnited States.
651		0	_aHome _zNew Mexico.
651		0	_aNew Mexico _xSocial conditions.
651		0	_aUnited States _xSocial conditions _y21st century.
655		0	_aEssays.
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