In Paradise by Peter Matthiessen
The only writer ever to win National Book Awards for both fiction and non-fiction‘Skilful… affecting and powerful… In Paradise gets at the heart of the defining tragic enigma of the 20th century… [It] is Matthiessen's complex and worthy adieu’
-- Jane Smiley, Guardian‘Lucid, compelling… A masterclass in fiction… Stunning’
* Irish Times *‘Powerfully lyrical and atmospheric’
* Observer *‘A curious, risky novel’
* Literary Review *‘A moving valedictory for one of America’s most wide-ranging and poetical writers… compelling… vivid… hypnotic’
* Financial Times *‘The best passages here are beautifully observed evocations of the place… There is much to meditate on and many reasons to read this novel’
* The Times *‘Darkly humorous… [In Paradise] gives no hint of the writer’s age or declining physical powersThe maturity of its insights, and its emotional restraint, are the only signs the author is not a youth’
* The Herald *'His writing does every justice to the blood and 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.’
-- Richard Ford
‘A dark but thoroughly testing, ambitious and thought-provoking novel’
* Curious Animal *Peter Matthiessen is the author of more than thirty books and the only writer to win the National Book Award for both non-fiction (The Snow Leopard, in two categories, in 1979 and 1980) and fiction (Shadow Country, in 2008). A co-founder of The Paris Review and a world-renowned naturalist, explorer and activist, he died in April 2014.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781780745558 |
| ISBN 10 | 1780745559 |
| Title | In Paradise |
| Author | Peter Matthiessen |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Oneworld Publications |
| Year published | 2014-04-24 |
| Number of pages | 256 |
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