{"product_id":"9781466876965","title":"The Last Cheater's Waltz: Beauty and Violence in the Desert Southwest","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom the recipient of the 1997 Whiting Award.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFeeling disconnected from the wildly beautiful desert that she has known intimately for twenty years, award-winning writer Ellen Meloy embarks on a search for home that is historical, scientific, and spiritual. Her \"Map of the Known Universe,\" devised to guide her quest, reveals extraordinary details of a physical link between the atomic age and her home on Utah's San Juan River. The Map grows to include Los Alamos, the Trinity A-test site, White Sands Missile Range, and primary sources of uranium.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMeloy casts her naturalist's eye on the Southwest's \"geography of consequence,\" where she finds unusual local bestiaries, the bodies of long-buried neighbors, an underground bubble of nuclear physics in a national forest, and the rich textures of nature on her own eight acres of land. \u003ci\u003eThe Last Cheater's Waltz: Beauty and Violence in the Desert Southwest\u003c\/i\u003e is multilayered and far-reaching, yet always infused with Meloy's prodigious research, finely tuned prose, and wry humor.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Holt, Henry \u0026 Company, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47162759184624,"sku":"9781466876965","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781466876965_p0.jpg?v=1769892051","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781466876965","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}