Edge of Taos Desert: An Escape to Reality

by Mabel Dodge Luhan, John Collier (Foreword by), Lois Palken Rudnick (Introduction)

Overview

In 1917 Mabel Sterne, patron of the arts and spokeswoman for the New York avant-garde, came to the Southwest seeking a new life. This autobiographical account, long out-of-print, of her first few months in New Mexico is a remarkable description of an Easterner's journey to the American West. It is also a great story of personal and philosophical transformation. The geography of New Mexico and the culture of the Pueblo Indians opened a new world for Mabel. She settled in Taos immediately and lived there the rest of her life. Much of this book describes her growing fascination with Antonio Luhan of Taos Pueblo, whom she subsequently married. Her descriptions of the appeal of primitive New Mexico to a world-weary New Yorker are still fresh and moving.

"I finished it in a state of amazed revelation . . . it is so beautifully compact and consistent. . . . It is going to help many another woman and man to 'take life with the talons' and carry it high."--Ansel Adams

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780826325105
Publisher:	University of New Mexico Press
Publication date:	04/01/1987
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	368
Sales rank:	775,572
File size:	555 KB

About the Author

Lois Palken Rudnick has written or edited several books on Mabel Dodge Luhan. She is professor of English and American Studies and director of the American Studies Program at the University of Massachusetts, Boston.

Editorial Reviews

"It's a fascinating glimpse of an early Taos and its citizens through the eyes of a very famous resident.'

"It's a fascinating glimpse, of an early Taos and its citizens through the eyes of a very famous resident."

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