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Good News
First edition
AuthorEdward Abbey
GenreScience fiction
PublisherDutton
Publication date
1980,
1991
Media typeprint (hardback and paperback)
Pages242 (original)
256 (reissue)
ISBN0525115838
Preceded byThe Brave Cowboy (partially) 

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]

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.

References

  1. ^ "Good News". www.goodreads.com. Retrieved 2019-12-31.


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