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Twentynine Palms: A True Story of Murder, Marines and the Mojave
Deanne Stillman is the author of the bestselling Twentynine Palms: A True Story of Murder, Marines and the Mojave -- the haunting book Hunter S. Thompson calls "a strange and brilliant story by an important American writer."
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"The concern here is the Mojave Desert, the dry, baptismal font of the national consciousness, mythological birthplace of America. It takes a big, white-hearted desert to fuel the pursuit of happiness, vast stretches of emptiness to suggest that the world can be possessed like an oyster, extreme tableaux of beauty to obliterate all memory of bad news....
The concern here is The Mojave Desert, the dry, baptismal font of the national conciousness, mythological birthplace of America.
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