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April 16, 2005: Headlines: Figures: COS - Uzbekistan: Writing - Uzbekistan: Bookstandard: There's not much sea left on the steppes of Central Asia, the setting of Tom Bissell's lively memoir Chasing the Sea
There's not much sea left on the steppes of Central Asia, the setting of Tom Bissell's lively memoir Chasing the Sea
There's not much sea left on the steppes of Central Asia, the setting of Tom Bissell's lively memoir Chasing the Sea
"Think 'The Ice Storm' meets 'The L Word' meets 'The Serial' meets 'The Competition'": The Kirkus Reviews/Hollywood Reporter Books-to-Film Recommendations
April 16, 2005
By Thomas Leitch
With all deference to the late, great Stanley Kubrick (and the late, great Terry Southern), was there ever a time when we learned to stop worrying and love the Bomb? No, not really, and anyone who lived in that curious, distant time called the Cold War era had plenty to worry about, even if it never was clear whether a mad Soviet or a mad American would be the first to test the MAD doctrine.
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There's not much sea left on the steppes of Central Asia, the setting of Tom Bissell's lively memoir Chasing the Sea (Pantheon Books, $24.95). Bissell, a Peace Corps veteran, travels to Tashkent, Uzbekistan, to document the death of the Aral Sea, once one of the world's great inland bodies of water but now little more than a salty puddle between two great deserts. The damage wrought by Soviet-era agriculture might very well be too severe to undo, which gives an enterprising documentarian a peg on which to hang a brooding tale of "a luckless place where angry fates and unwitting human needs saw their devastating concussion."
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