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 (931 Downloads) |
Download or read book The Heart of the Monster written by David James Duncan and published by . This book was released on 2010-12-20 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.