On the River Styx: And Other Stories
Since the 1950s Peter Matthiessen has written fiction and nonfiction of elemental power and moral vision, including the acclaimed novels At Play in the Fields of the Lord and Far Tortuga and works of naturalism and exploration like the National Book Award-winning The Snow Leopard.

This stunning collection of short stories, available for the first time in paperback, spans more than three decades of writing by one of the most acclaimed literary voices of our time.
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On the River Styx: And Other Stories
Since the 1950s Peter Matthiessen has written fiction and nonfiction of elemental power and moral vision, including the acclaimed novels At Play in the Fields of the Lord and Far Tortuga and works of naturalism and exploration like the National Book Award-winning The Snow Leopard.

This stunning collection of short stories, available for the first time in paperback, spans more than three decades of writing by one of the most acclaimed literary voices of our time.
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On the River Styx: And Other Stories

On the River Styx: And Other Stories

by Peter Matthiessen
On the River Styx: And Other Stories

On the River Styx: And Other Stories

by Peter Matthiessen

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Overview

Since the 1950s Peter Matthiessen has written fiction and nonfiction of elemental power and moral vision, including the acclaimed novels At Play in the Fields of the Lord and Far Tortuga and works of naturalism and exploration like the National Book Award-winning The Snow Leopard.

This stunning collection of short stories, available for the first time in paperback, spans more than three decades of writing by one of the most acclaimed literary voices of our time.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780307819680
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 05/09/2012
Series: Vintage International
Sold by: Random House
Format: eBook
Pages: 224
File size: 2 MB

About the Author

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 published six other works of fiction, including Far Tortuga and Killing Mister Watson. Matthiessen's parallel career as a naturalist and explorer resulted in numerous 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. Matthiessen died in 2014.

What People are Saying About This

William Styron

An original and powerful artist…who has produced as impressive a body of work as that of any writer of our time. He has immeasurably enlarged our consciousness.—(William Styron)

Don DeLillo

These compelling tales of elemental fear and ever—pressing silence culminate in the great, dark and desperate final story, a masterful piece of work by one of our best writers.—(Don DeLillo)

Jim Harrison

Simply wonderful stories…when all the faddish smoke clears, Peter Matthiessen's work will stand revealed as that of an artist of immense talent, grandeur, and genius.—(Jim Harrison)

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