Black Sun (Edward Abbey Novel) - Characters

Characters

  • Will Gatlin – A 37-year-old ranger who mans a fire watch tower in the forest.
  • Sandy MacKenzie – A brash 19-year-old woman who is falling in love with the forest.
  • Art Ballentine – A college professor and friend of Will's.
  • Elsie Ballentine – Art's wife
  • Gloria Hollenbeck – A friend of Sandy's who Will thinks of as the "rodeo queen."
  • Wendell – Will's boss, who he reports into every morning from the fire watch tower
  • Lawrence J. Turner the Third – Sandy's fiance and a 23-year-old Air Force cadet
  • Rosalie – A woman Will would see on a semi-regular basis for sex who lived 90 miles away with her three children
Works by Edward Abbey
Non-fiction
  • Desert Solitaire (1968)
  • Down the River (1982)
Novels
  • Jonathan Troy (1954)
  • The Brave Cowboy (1956)
  • Fire on the Mountain (1962)
  • Black Sun (1971)
  • The Monkey Wrench Gang (1975)
  • Good News (1980)
  • The Fool's Progress (1989)
  • Hayduke Lives (1990)

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