The Snow Leopard
Easton Press, 2004. Collector's Edition. Full Leather. New / No Jacket as Issued. Item #5242
A beautiful Collector's Edition of Peter Matthiessen's award-winning book, signed by the author and still in the original publisher issued cellophane shrink-wrap.
Originally published in 1978, this book was the winner of the National Book Award for Nonfiction in 1979. In full red leather, the book is in fine unread condition with gold gilt cover designs and page edges, moire silk endpapers and bound-in silk bookmark. 388 pp. Includes the Publisher's Note and Certificate of Authenticity from Easton Press. A lovely copy.
Matthiessen was the co-founder of the Paris Review. He spoke to NPR in a 1989 interview, where he explored his approach to writing: "I think all really good writing is attention to detail. It's that one detail, that one scrap of dialogue, one color or smell that brings the whole scene to life. You can't throw in everything. You'd be just writing all day long over one small scene. So you have to find that one thing that the reader can build up from.
For example, William Faulkner, he was extraordinarily skillful. He would pick out one, or at most two, physical characteristics of somebody and then just repeat them over and over again, and the reader gradually builds up a whole character around that one physical detail because the detail is so well-chosen that it serves you in this way, you can do it."
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