The Heart of the Monster
Author | : David James Duncan |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2010-12-20 |
ISBN-10 | : 0615425933 |
ISBN-13 | : 9780615425931 |
Rating | : 4/5 (33 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: THE HEART OF THE MONSTER consists of a 130-page essay by David James Duncan and a 130-page novella by Rick Bass. Duncan's essay, entitled "The Heart of the Monster," is a protest of the plan by oil corporations and politicians to turn the Northwest's and Northern Rockies' rivers, roads and wilderness into a tentacle of the largest and most destructive petroleum project in history: the Alberta Tar Sands. Bass's novella, "A Short History of Montana, is a portrait of the backward evolution of a fictitious political figure as Big Oil and Big Energy's concepts of power begin to stew in his head and eat away his heart.