Bone by Bone - Rilegato

Matthiessen, Peter

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ISBN 10: 0375501029 ISBN 13: 9780375501029

Casa editrice: Random House Inc, 1999

Riassunto

Continues the saga of anti-hero E.J. Watson, an entrepreneurial sugar cane farmer in the Everglades, exile in Indian territory, devoted husband, distant father, and allegedly, a cold-blooded killer

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Recensione:

"[Matthiessen's] moral anguish is inescapable, and he can write like an avenging angel."    --Time

Killing Mister Watson

"What a marvel of invention this novel is . . . a virtuoso performance. Killing Mister Watson  is Peter Matthiessen at his best."
--The New York Times Book Review

"This novel stands with the best that our nation has produced as literature. . . . As a       philosophical study of the quality of human--and all--nature, [it] is first-rate. As political allegory, it is stunning."
--Los Angeles Times Book Review

"Intricately structured, richly documented, utterly convincing."
--The Washington Post Book World

"Like Twain and Faulkner, Matthiessen has mastered the knack of achieving a literary effect without violating the authenticity of an unlettered voice."
--Cleveland Plain Dealer

"An important and deeply satisfying book, and one that may justifiably be compared to the very finest of American novels."
--St. Petersburg Times
Lost Man's River

"A project of enormous ambition . . . Some of the most moving passages . . . are not about people but about the land they simultaneously love and fear."
--The New York Times Book Review

"One of the grand projects of contemporary literature . . . [Matthiessen is] a superb stylist."
--San Francisco Chronicle Book Review

"Fuses elegant tale-telling with terrible realities."
--The Miami Herald

"Elegant . . . epic . . . awesome."    --St. Petersburg Times

"Mystery is the essence of Matthiessen's continuing saga. It is the essence of fine art, of great beauty, of existence itself."
--San Francisco Examiner

L'autore:

Peter Matthiessen was born in New York City in 1927 and had already begun his writing career by the time he graduated from Yale University in 1950. The following year, he was a founder of The Paris Review.  Besides At Play in the Fields of the Lord, which was nominated for the National Book Award, he has published six other novels, most notably Killing Mister Watson, Lost Man's River (the first and second books of this trilogy), and Far Tortuga. Mr. Matthiessen's parallel career as a naturalist and explorer has resulted in numerous and widely acclaimed books of nonfiction, among them The Tree Where Man Was Born, which was nominated for the National Book Award, and The Snow Leopard, which won it.

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• Editore: Random House Inc
• Data di pubblicazione: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0375501029
• ISBN 13: 9780375501029
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 410