Far Tortuga ; At Play in the Fields of the Lord
Author | : Peter Matthiessen |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 781 |
Release | : 1975* |
Genre | : Central America |
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Author | : Peter Matthiessen |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 781 |
Release | : 1975* |
Genre | : Central America |
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Author | : Peter Matthiessen |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 2012-05-02 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0307819647 |
In a malarial outpost in the South American rain forest, two misplaced gringos converge and clash in this novel from the National Book Award-winning author. Martin Quarrier has come to convert the elusive Niaruna Indians to his brand of Christianity. Lewis Moon, a stateless mercenary who is himself part Indian, has come to kill them on the behalf of the local comandante. Out of this struggle Peter Matthiessen creates an electrifying moral thriller—adapted into a movie starring John Lithgow, Kathy Bates, and Tom Waits. A novel of Conradian richness, At Play in the Fields of the Lord explores both the varieties of spiritual experience and the politics of cultural genocide.
Author | : Peter Matthiessen |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 417 |
Release | : 1988-01-12 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0394756673 |
An adventure story and a deeply considered meditation upon the sea itself. "Beautiful and original...a resonant and symbolical story of nine doomed men who dream of an earthly paradise as the world winds down around them." —Newsweek
Author | : Peter Matthiessen |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 408 |
Release | : 1965 |
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Author | : Peter Matthiessen |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 417 |
Release | : 2012-04-25 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0307819698 |
An adventure story and a deeply considered meditation upon the sea itself. "Beautiful and original...a resonant and symbolical story of nine doomed men who dream of an earthly paradise as the world winds down around them." —Newsweek
Author | : Peter Matthiessen |
Publisher | : Modern Library |
Total Pages | : 912 |
Release | : 2008-08-19 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1588368246 |
NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • “Altogether gripping, shocking, and brilliantly told, not just a tour de force in its stylistic range, but a great American novel, as powerful a reading experience as nearly any in our literature.”—Michael Dirda, The New York Review of Books Killing Mister Watson, Lost Man’s River, and Bone by Bone—Peter Matthiessen’s great American epic about Everglades sugar planter and notorious outlaw E. J. Watson on the wild Florida frontier at the turn of the twentieth century—were originally conceived as one vast, mysterious novel. Now, in this bold new rendering, Matthiessen has marvelously distilled a monumental work while deepening the insights and motivations of his characters with brilliant rewriting throughout. Praise for Shadow Country “Magnificent . . . breathtaking . . . Finally now we have [this three-part saga] welded like a bell, and with Watson’s song the last sound, all the elements fuse and resonate.”—Los Angeles Times “Peter Matthiessen has done great things with the Watson trilogy. It’s the story of our continent, both land and people, and his writing does every justice to the blood fury of his themes.”—Don DeLillo “The fiction of Peter Matthiessen is the reason a lot of people in my generation decided to be writers. No doubt about it. Shadow Country lives up to anyone’s highest expectations for great writing.” —Richard Ford “Shadow Country, Matthiessen’s distillation of the earlier Watson saga, represents his original vision. It is the quintessence of his lifelong concerns, and a great legacy.”—W. S. Merwin “[An] epic masterpiece . . . a great American novel.”—The Miami Herald
Author | : Peter Matthiessen |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 274 |
Release | : 2015-02-03 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1594633525 |
The bestselling final novel by a writer of incomparable range, power, and achievement, a three-time winner of the National Book Award. Peter Matthiessen was a literary legend, the author of more than thirty acclaimed books. In this, his final novel, he confronts the legacy of evil, and our unquenchable desire to wrest good from it. One week in late autumn of 1996, a group gathers at the site of a former death camp. They offer prayer at the crematoria and meditate in all weathers on the selection platform. They eat and sleep in the sparse quarters of the Nazi officers who, half a century before, sent more than a million Jews in this camp to their deaths. Clements Olin has joined them, in order to complete his research on the strange suicide of a survivor. As the days pass, tensions both political and personal surface among the participants, stripping away any easy pretense to resolution or healing. Caught in the grip of emotions and impulses of bewildering intensity, Olin is forced to abandon his observer’s role and to bear witness, not only to his family’s ambiguous history but to his own. Profoundly thought-provoking, In Paradise is a fitting coda to the luminous career of a writer who was “for all readers. He was for the world” (National Geographic).
Author | : Peter Matthiessen |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 416 |
Release | : 2014-03-31 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0520282507 |
In the summer of 1968 Peter Matthiessen met Cesar Chavez for the first time. They were the same age: forty-one. Matthiessen lived in New York City, while Chavez lived in the Central Valley farm town of Delano, where the grape strike was unfolding. This book is Matthiessen’s panoramic yet finely detailed account of the three years he spent working and traveling with Chavez, including to Sal Si Puedes, the San Jose barrio where Chavez began his organizing. Matthiessen provides a candid look into the many sides of this enigmatic and charismatic leader who lived by the laws of nonviolence. Sal Si Puedes is less reportage than living history. In its pages a whole era comes alive: the Chicano, Black Power, and antiwar movements; the browning of the labor movement; Chavez’s fasts; the nationwide boycott of California grapes. When Chavez died in 1993, tens of thousands gathered at his funeral. It was a clear sign of how beloved he was and how important his life had been. A new foreword by Marc Grossman considers the significance of Chavez’s legacy for our time. As well as serving as an indispensable guide to the 1960s, this book rejuvenates the extraordinary vitality of Chavez’s life and spirit, giving his message a renewed and much-needed urgency.
Author | : Barbara V. Swovelin |
Publisher | : Cliffs Notes |
Total Pages | : 323 |
Release | : 2019-01-08 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1328465837 |
"Your complete guide to a higher score on the AP English Language and Composition Exam" --
Author | : John R. Cooley |
Publisher | : University of Michigan Press |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : American literature |
ISBN | : 9780472065370 |
An essential collection of criticism on the leading nature writers of today.