{"id":10383,"date":"2011-03-28T12:56:05","date_gmt":"2011-03-28T19:56:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/?p=10383"},"modified":"2021-09-30T15:27:19","modified_gmt":"2021-09-30T22:27:19","slug":"featured-peter-matthiessen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/archives\/featured-peter-matthiessen\/","title":{"rendered":"FEATURED: Peter Matthiessen"},"content":{"rendered":"

Peter Matthiessen is a two-time National Book Award winning American novelist, as well as an environmental activist, and Zen Buddhist. <\/span>Along with George Plimpton and Harold L. Humes, Matthiessen founded the literary magazine The Paris Review<\/em> in 1953. In 2008 Matthiessen reissued a revised edition of\u00a0 his trilogy of novels \u2014 Killing Mr. Watson<\/em>, Lost Man’s River<\/em> and Bone by Bone, <\/em>for which he received his second National Book Award.\u00a0 In Men’s Lives <\/em>he champions yet another cause, this time the baymen of Long Island’s East End.\u00a0 Matthiessen himself worked as a commercial fisherman in the early 1950s on the South Fork of Long Island. As both knowledgeable insider and keen observer of a passing culture, he writes of the independent, tough, skilled members of a few large families who have fished those coastal waters for generations, but who no longer can make a living in the face of regulations, political restrictions, economic pressures.\u00a0 A meditation on a traditional culture\u00a0 marginalized by the forces of the modern culture, but also a masterful celebration of pride in one’s work, and the sense of community it brings.<\/p>\n

Description:<\/strong> INSCRIBED, SIGNED & DATED BY PETER MATTHIESSEN <\/span>on then half title page. TRUE FIRST EDITION. <\/span>Two volumes, hardbound in olive green linen with pasted down illustrations affixed to front boards. No dust jackets, as issued. In original publishers olive green linen slipcase. Matthiessen’s tribute to the fishermen of eastern Long Island and their way of life that slowly seemed to dying away. Matthiessen has spent much of his life on the eastern end of Long Island, where he maintains a house in Sagaponack. Photographs by Danny Lyon, Gilles Peress, Lynn Johnson, Dan Budnick and others. 238 and 170 pages; as new condition. ; clean and crisp books and slipcase. A RARE INSCRIBED COPY!<\/span><\/p>\n

Bookseller Inventory #<\/strong> 25017<\/p>\n

SOLD <\/span><\/p>\n

Men’s Lives: The Surfmen and Baymen of the South Fork<\/strong>
\nMatthiessen, Peter<\/em><\/p>\n

Publisher: Rock Foundation<\/strong>
\nPublication Date: 1986<\/strong>
\nBinding: Hardcover<\/strong>
\nBook Condition: Near Fine<\/strong>
\nDust Jacket Condition: No Jacket, As Issued<\/strong>
\nSigned: Inscribed by Author<\/strong>
\nEdition: 1st Edition, Limited<\/strong><\/p>\n

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