Magnificent ROBERT MACFARLANEFascinating KATHERINE MAYIrresistible KATHERINE BUCKNELLPerceptive and consistently readable CAL FLYNDiscover the many lives of Peter Matthiessen writer, naturalist, activist, CIA agent, Zen master in this kaleidoscopic biography of an American literary giant.Author of The Snow Leopard, cofounder of the Paris Review and the only writer to have ever won the National Book Award for both fiction and nonfiction, Peter Matthiessen was a towering figure of twentiethcentury American literature. He was also an undercover agent for the fledgling CIA an environmental activist an advocate for Native American rights friends with the likes of Truman Capote and William Styron and a daring explorer who visited every continent on Earth.Across these many lives, Matthiessen was always searching for what he called his true nature, and this spiritual quest ultimately led him to the highest ranks of Zen.Readers and critics have struggled to reconcile Matthiessens extraordinarily varied achievements and literary output. Now, for the first time, drawing on rich primary sources and hundreds of interviews, acclaimed biographer Lance Richardson pulls together the seemingly disparate threads of Matthiessens story. With pageturning immediacy, Richardson illuminates how the writers uncanny gifts enabled him to sense connections between ecological decline, racism and labour exploitation to express, eloquently and presciently, that in a damaged human habitat, all...

Binding: Hardback;736 pages; Publisher: TBS-Penguin Random House Wholesale; Classification: BGL; Weight: 1094 g; Dimensions: 241 x 166 x 49

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