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Also by Ellen Meloy:

The Last Cheater's Waltz, January 2001
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THE LAST CHEATER'S WALTZ
By: Ellen Meloy

Beauty and Violence in the Desert Southwest

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January 2001
225 pages
ISBN: 0816521530
EAN: 9780816521531
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Ellen Meloy describes a corner of desert hard by the San Juan River in southeastern Utah, a place long forsaken as implausible and impassable, of little use or value--a place that she calls home. Despite twenty years of carefully nurtured intimacy with this red-rock landscape, Meloy finds herself, one sunbaked morning, staring down at a dead lizard floating in her coffee and feeling suddenly unmoored. What follows is a quest that is both physical and spiritual, a search for home.

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