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Title: Far Tortuga : A Novel by Peter Matthiessen ISBN: 0-394-75667-3 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 12 January, 1988 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (14 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Why hasn't this man won a Nobel Prize?
Comment: This book is truly a masterpiece. There is nothing else like it: where are "Heart of Darkness" or "The Old Man and the Sea" in comparison to it? I've been reading it for 15 or 20 years, and I find it intensely moving and fresh every time I pick it up. I consider it one of the best 6 or 8 novels (in English, certainly) of the passing century. READ THIS BOOK!!!!!
Matthiessen is a poet, even in didactic nonfiction like "Wildife in America". Tell me, is there a better or more beautiful image anywhere than the sinking turtle which Speedy releases at the end of "Far Tortuga"?
For too many years Matthiessen has been an international treasure, a writer of enormous breadth and incomparable depth, without the recognition he deserves for a lifetime of work. Isn't it time he received a Nobel Prize?????
Rating: 5
Summary: Far Tortuga: A Materfully Told Sea Tale
Comment: Peter Mattiessen is one of my favorite writers. You know, if you pick one his many books and open them,whether fiction or non-fiction, that you will be entertained, and see something through fresh eyes, and behind the writing a man concerned deeply for the suvival of our planet. Far Tortuga is a strange, other-worldly book. Mattiessen creates a new style, with word paragraphs of beautiful descriptions of the natural world and the sea, then the emphasis on the dialect spoken in the Bahamas, so deeply felt and understood that it is poetry, the natural rythums of speech and nature captured. Matthiesen has risked much but has succeeded on every creative level. One keeps going back to relish a passage and say "How did he do it, so deeply understand the native speech and blend it into a thrilling adventure story?" He has done this and more, this adventure story about turtle fishing, the sea, human nature under the stress of the elements, and wonderful imagination for names like the name of the turtling ship, the "Lillias Eden," place names like Misteriosa Reefs, and the characters like Raib Evers, Byrum, Speedy, and my favorite: Will Parchment. It is a story of adventure and meditation, of a deceptive simpicity. I think of Joseph Conrad mixed with the wonderful Bahama watercolors of Winslow Homer and Mattiessen in his imagery is easily their equal. It is a zen meditation on the sea and deep regret of things lost and hope of things that may be there, a "Far Tortuga" that may not be on a map but lies out there, home of wide-winged seabirds, pirates, and adventure. "Far Totuga" is a one of a kind masterpiece that throws its readers headfirst into the vision and never lets go.When I read it,I hear the sea surge,feel the author's deep love of nature and of the blue watery planet,where most of our natural paradises and magical places are disappearing.
Rating: 5
Summary: Good grasp of 3rd world, struggles of natural world
Comment: Written in the style of the screenplay, Peter Matthiessen mixes poetry and realism. It is easy to see, although somewhat confusing as to who the speaker is. Enjoyable.
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Title: Killing Mister Watson by Peter Matthiessen ISBN: 0679734058 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 30 July, 1991 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: At Play in the Fields of the Lord by PETER MATTHIESSEN ISBN: 0679737413 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 03 December, 1991 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: The Snow Leopard (Penguin Nature Classics) by Peter Matthiessen, Edward Hoagland ISBN: 0140255087 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: June, 1996 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Bone by Bone by Peter Matthiessen ISBN: 0375701818 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 18 July, 2000 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Lost Man's River by Peter Matthiessen ISBN: 067973564X Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 29 September, 1998 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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