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"Eccentric, hilarious. . . . This may not be the first environmental novel, but it's the first one that produces belly laughs."—Mary Bringle, author of Murder Most Gentrified
Firewater is a brutally funny environmental suspense novel featuring Chief Shelldrake, favorite son for the U.S. presidency and last hope for the world's survival. A perfect anti-hero for the post-apocalypse, Shelldrake is equal parts Ralph Nader (in his zealous environmental activism), Sitting Bull (in his proud tribal loyalties), Huey Long (in his fiery demagogic populism) and Bill Clinton (in his unquenchable appetite for voluptuous young women).
Edward Stone Cohen (1937–1999) was born in Massachusetts and was a tireless environmental activist.
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Ma Rocio Herrera
reviewed Firewater on February 04, 2008 Firewater
"You could not be indifferent to the war, you could not be of two minds about it. And yet--Jimmie Higgins was of two minds! He wanted to beat back the Huns, who had made all this fearful mess; but also he wanted to beat the profiteers who were making messes at home."
I think a lot of Americans don't realize just how tumultuous the beginning of the 20th century actually was. Anarchism, socialism, labor unrest, rapacious imperialism, military buildup - and Jimmie Higgins is dead center in the middle of it.
This "bowed, undernourished little man" meets presidential candidates royalty, incites strikes wherever he goes, loses everything multiple times - it's exhausting, really, but damn engaging.
This is the most complex novel by Sinclair that I've read. I love Sinclair and I'm a socialist myself but he often strikes me as naive, if not willfully so. This novel seems to reflect Sinclair's attempt at reflecting the world back to itself through the eyes of an eagerly devoted proletarian idealist. Imagine Forrest Gump as a devoted working class agitator in the 1910s and you're probably not even close - my favorite Upton Sinclair novel, by far.
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