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Title: The Aztec Treasure House: New and Selected Essays by Evan S. Connell ISBN: 1-58243-253-8 Publisher: Counterpoint Press Pub. Date: 15 October, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $17.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (4 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Wondrous hodge-podge
Comment: This wonderful book flows along like a river. Sometimes it bumps into boulders, swirls in an odd corner, or leaps down a waterfall. Connell throws in extraneous facts, skips from here to there,and gives enjoyable reading. He would be an author of great stature if he could refrain from his heavy-handed pose of jaded cynicism. Yes, we know there are nasty people in the world without being reminded at every possible cue. Yes, we know that many people in the English speaking world are execrable, too, even though we have produced nobody of Hitler's rank: where he uses Dresden to provide an example of an apartment crumbling during WWII, London also provided plenty of firebombed apartments, and they didn't even start the war. And anyway, all that is thoroughly traveled territory, inappropriate for a book that takes us into untraveled lands and unknown people.
These are great stories, told superbly. One thing puzzled me, though. Connell's eloquence failed him on perhaps the greatest journey of all. Compare his telling of the Cabeza de Vaca to the same story in DeVoto's Course of Empire. Strange.
But don't let this get in your way. Read and enjoy!
Rating: 5
Summary: wonderful journeys in this book
Comment: Evan Connell knows how to capture the reader with an array of fascinating details woven into wonderful journeys that weave
through different corridors of human history.
Take the adventure and read this collection of essays!
Rating: 5
Summary: Wonderful Essays
Comment: I first read most of these essays the year I graduated from college. (All but a couple were collected in earlier books which are now quite hard to find.) They are beautifully written, exciting, and fascinating. Connell has an amazing breadth of subjects and communicates complex ideas with ease and clarity. Even years later, I find myself thinking about his essays on the race to the South Pole or near eastern archaeology. In fact, this is that rare book I'd recommend to almost anyone of just about any age. It's full of exciting stories, intelligent analysis, and honest-to-god wit. I'm so glad to see these essays collected in one volume. Hoorah! [Connell's Mr. Bridge and Mrs. Bridge are also fantastic.]
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Title: Deus Lo Volt! by Evan S. Connell ISBN: 158243140X Publisher: HarperCollins Pub. Date: 20 March, 2001 List Price(USD): $17.50 |
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Title: Son of the Morning Star by Evan S. Connell ISBN: 0865475105 Publisher: North Point Press Pub. Date: October, 1997 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: Genius: A Mosaic of One Hundred Exemplary Creative Minds by Harold Bloom ISBN: 0446527173 Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: November, 2002 List Price(USD): $35.95 |
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Title: The Complete Walker IV by Colin Fletcher, Vanna Prince, Hannah Hinchman, C. L. Rawlins ISBN: 0375703233 Publisher: Knopf Pub. Date: 30 April, 2002 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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Title: Krakatoa : The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883 by Simon Winchester ISBN: 0066212855 Publisher: HarperCollins Pub. Date: 01 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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