Author: Peter Matthiessen
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307819647
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 387
Book Description
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.
Far Tortuga ; At Play in the Fields of the Lord
Author: Peter Matthiessen
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Central America
Languages : en
Pages : 781
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Central America
Languages : en
Pages : 781
Book Description
Far Tortuga
Author: Peter Matthiessen
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0394756673
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 417
Book Description
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
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0394756673
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 417
Book Description
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
Far Tortuga ; At Play in the Fields of the Lord
Author: Peter Matthiessen
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780394494616
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 804
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780394494616
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 804
Book Description
At Play in the Fields of the Lord
Author: Peter Matthiessen
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307819647
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 387
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307819647
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 387
Book Description
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.
THE NEWEST NOVEL BY THE AUTHOR "AT PLAY IN THE FIELDS OF THE LORD" FAR TORTUGA
Author: Peter Matthiessen
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
Far Tortuga
Author: Peter Matthiessen
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307819698
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 417
Book Description
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
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307819698
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 417
Book Description
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
Shadow Country
Author: Peter Matthiessen
Publisher: Modern Library
ISBN: 1588368246
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 912
Book Description
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
Publisher: Modern Library
ISBN: 1588368246
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 912
Book Description
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
Cliffsnotes AP English Language and Composition, 5th Edition
Author: Barbara V. Swovelin
Publisher: Cliffs Notes
ISBN: 1328465837
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 323
Book Description
"Your complete guide to a higher score on the AP English Language and Composition Exam" --
Publisher: Cliffs Notes
ISBN: 1328465837
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 323
Book Description
"Your complete guide to a higher score on the AP English Language and Composition Exam" --
James Jones
Author: Willie Morris
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252068379
Category : Authors, American
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
He also recounts Jones's race against the clock to finish Whistle, the culmination of his World War II trilogy, which Morris himself completed after his friend's death in 1977."--BOOK JACKET.
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252068379
Category : Authors, American
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
He also recounts Jones's race against the clock to finish Whistle, the culmination of his World War II trilogy, which Morris himself completed after his friend's death in 1977."--BOOK JACKET.
Earthly Words
Author: John R. Cooley
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472065370
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
An essential collection of criticism on the leading nature writers of today.
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472065370
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
An essential collection of criticism on the leading nature writers of today.