Annie's Soup Kitchen: A Novel (Literature of the American West, V. 13) - Hardcover
The "shadow plague" is striking young and old throughout the world with severe amnesia, dementia, and eventual death, and no one knows the cause or the cure. Annie O'Rourke, a ninety-five-year-old retired nurse who runs a soup kitchen for the homeless in Lemon City, California, believes environmental degradation is the culprit. Development and pollution have devastated the Santa Ana River watershed, and Annie is convinced that if she purifies the river, she will cure Southern California's plague victims and stimulate worldwide healing.
With Whiskey Ed, Library Lady, the General, Roderigo, Skulford Elephant, and Perry - all soup kitchen regulars with special skills and powers - eco-warrior Annie forms the Magnificent Seven. Embarking on a campaign of inspired environmental monkey-wrenching, the Magnificent Seven attack a waste disposal plant, a cannery, and an oil refinery, inciting a media frenzy.
When Annie discovers a cure for the shadow plague that includes immersion in the Santa Ana River, she must try to convince authorities to conduct an emergency cleanup. Amidst negotiations, a twenty-five-day flood leaves its marks on Southern California. After the flood recedes, powerful interests seize the land and accuse the Magnificent Seven of terrorism. The group must plan its next move.
With Whiskey Ed, Library Lady, the General, Roderigo, Skulford Elephant, and Perry - all soup kitchen regulars with special skills and powers - eco-warrior Annie forms the Magnificent Seven. Embarking on a campaign of inspired environmental monkey-wrenching, the Magnificent Seven attack a waste disposal plant, a cannery, and an oil refinery, inciting a media frenzy.
When Annie discovers a cure for the shadow plague that includes immersion in the Santa Ana River, she must try to convince authorities to conduct an emergency cleanup. Amidst negotiations, a twenty-five-day flood leaves its marks on Southern California. After the flood recedes, powerful interests seize the land and accuse the Magnificent Seven of terrorism. The group must plan its next move.
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Lawrence R. Smith is a novelist, poet, translator, and former editor of the literary journal Caliban. Smith is author of The Plain Talk of the Dead and translator of The King of the Storeroom by Antonio Porta and No Trace of the Gardener: Poems of Yang Mu. He lives in Southern California where he has worked every Friday for the last eight years in a soup kitchen.
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- PublisherUniv of Oklahoma Pr
- Publication date2003
- ISBN 10 0806135298
- ISBN 13 9780806135298
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages248
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. First Edition. New, unread first edition. Signed by Smith on the title page. University of Oklahoma Press, c 2003, hardback, first printing (complete number line) , Fine/Fine dust jacket. 236 pages, unmarked. ISBN 0806135298, FICTION; E3660 S Fic-2; Signed by Author(s). Seller Inventory # 34179
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