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by Peter Matthiessen

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Peter Matthiessen

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978-0394553993

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0394553993

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English

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Random House; 1st edition (March 25, 1989)

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Fiction

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Short Stories & Anthologies

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On the river Styx and other stories /. Peter Matthiessen. p. cm. eISBN: 978-0-307-81968-0. Sagaponack, New York.

Since the 1950s Peter Matthiessen has written fiction and nonfiction of elemental power and moral vision. Being a fan of short stories, I enjoyed "On the River Styx. Matthiessen's exploration of social morality is gripping in it's complexity

Since the 1950s Peter Matthiessen has written fiction and nonfiction of elemental power and moral vision. Matthiessen's exploration of social morality is gripping in it's complexity. Certainly worth while on the first reading and better still on the second, I would recommend this book to readers who enjoy being lost in a good thought provoking story.

Peter Matthiessen is on of them and On the River Styx does not disappoint. The book is a dark and uncomfortable collection of stories depicting race relations in the rural south in decades past. 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). Books by Peter Matthiessen.

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.

On the River Styx and Other Stories (1989). Dual awards for hardcover and paperback books were conferred from 1980 to 1983, when both Fiction and Nonfiction were also subdivided in other ways

On the River Styx and Other Stories (1989). Killing Mister Watson (1990). Lost Man's River (1997). Shadow Country: a new rendering of the Watson legend (2008). Wildlife in America (1959). The Cloud Forest: A Chronicle of the South American Wilderness (1961). Dual awards for hardcover and paperback books were conferred from 1980 to 1983, when both Fiction and Nonfiction were also subdivided in other ways.

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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.

Since the 1950s Peter Matthiessen has written fiction and nonfiction of elemental power and moral vision, including the .

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 o. .

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Peter Matthiessen was born in New York City in 1927 and had already begun his writing career by the time he graduated . 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.

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. 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.

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The pacing of nearly every story is brisk to the point of being headlong. Several produced so much anxiety it almost made them uncomfortable to read. I suspect that is a mark of well written fiction. The short story format was refreshing. If you've only read Snow Leopard (that was all I'd read) and loved it (it's a lifetime favorite) you will have a different and a similar experience when you read this. Different because SL was non fiction and introspective. Similar because the experience of reading an elegant and transcendent writer is the same if he or she is writing long form non fiction or short story fiction.

Silverbrew

I read it once then saw the reviews so I tried again but I don't see it. I read the Snow Leopard as well as The Land from the Place where man was born. I reread that book twice and enjoyed it very much. The Snow Leopard was enjoyable until he got in this Buddhist Spiritualists which go boring. He is in his best as in natural history.
He paints a good word picture but these short stories,I don't get it, perhaps it's just not my thing.

Jorius

These stories feel dated, like finding an old newspaper in an abandoned barn. One can't help but pick them up and see what's inside. Some are haunting, I first got this in 1996, loaned it to a friend who never brought it back, the Wolves story kept calling me so I had to get it again and rediscover the book all over again.

Tojahn

This is a collection of ten short stories by naturalist/novelist Peter Matthiessen. Matthiessen wrote the stories over a period of thirty-eight years, between 1950 and 1988. Many of the stories concern men who have placed themselves in dangerous and desperate circumstances, whether through alcohol addiction, criminal behavior, marital discord, fear, superstition or simply arrogance. Matthiessen's male characters are atavistic and Faulknerian. They are confident in their abilities to survive on deserted islands, forests and swamps, but meet their downfall in their interactions with other men, with the women they find attractive and with society in general. There is a barely concealed wildness and savagery in these characters. Nearly all of the stories are disturbing.

The best of the stories is the final one, Lumumba Lives. It is a wonderfully subtle story of a man who returns to the site of his ancestral home and unravels. The unnamed man returns to the United States after years of living in Africa. There are hints that he is in running from something, or that he has been deported. He is clearly struggling with fear, feelings of inadequacy and, most likely, an antisocial psychological disorder. He makes his way to the affluent suburb of New York City where he grew up, breaks into the mansion where he lived as a child, looks around and leaves. He purchases the gardener's cottage where he used to play and tries to live, but is too out of place to find peace.

Travelin Man is also quite good. An escaped convict wades through a swamp on the Carolina coastline and rafts his way to what he thinks is an uninhabited island. Within minutes of landing, he is fleeing from something worse than the police. Reminiscent of Richard O'Connell's classic adventure story, The Most Dangerous Game, this story is more believable and realistic. Horse Latitudes is the one humorous story in the collection. It is about two cabin mates on a freighter. At first glance, the two are completely incompatible and are driving each other crazy. They constantly goad each other, but they distract each other from the mind-numbing monotony and boredom of the long voyage. Ironically, they are holding onto their sanity by driving each other nuts.

Matthiessen is an impressive short story writer. I highly recommend this book.

Forey

Dark characters on the edge people this author's tightly written stories in this collection. One of reminded of Cormac McCarthy. If you want to be taken to far off, exotic locales, right here in your back yard, read this fine book by a accomplished author.

Gavirgas

I had not read anything of Mr. Matthiessen but was intrigued by the bios reporting the death of this prolific author. Any naturalist these days gets my attention and the fact that he won a fiction and non-fiction award the same year was amazing to me. I had to read something by this author. I am glad I did. This collection of short stories were a great introduction to his work and I will be reading more.

Diredefender

Being a fan of short stories, I enjoyed "On the River Styx." Matthiessen's exploration of social morality is gripping in it's complexity. Certainly worth while on the first reading and better still on the second, I would recommend this book to readers who enjoy being lost in a good thought provoking story.

Liked some stories more than others. Overall enjoyed reading, easy to get through and relavent today as when written!

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