Word: badland
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...harbor this hope without it breaking or your breaking into cycnicism. He is concerned with more than survival, with survival not being enough, which is refreshing after more indulgent writers. His first novel, Welcome to Hard Times, is set in a grim prairie expanse in the west, a badland blowing as cold and vacant as the plains near ancient Thebes. An outlaw comes to the frontier town and idly levels it; the book is about weak humans who build it again though they know in their hearts it will probably be razed again. The Book of Daniel, his most recent...