EVAN CONNELL—Aztec Treasure House—Essays—1st HC—“A MASTER"

Description: • For Your Consideration: • A First Edition in HARDCOVER of: • “THE AZTEC TREASURE HOUSE: New And Selected Essays” (Counterpoint, 2001) (Hardcover, First Edition) • BY EVAN S. CONNELL • “One of our most interesting and intelligent American writers.” —JOYCE CAROL OATES • “Among the country’s foremost writers.” —PETER MATTHIESSEN • “He is hard to surpass.”—BROOKE ALLEN, NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW • “CONNELL is an important writer-poet-thinker with a truly original mind.” —SAN FRANCISCO EXAMINER • “What distinguishes CONNELL is the sparkling intelligence of his vision, the rock hard poetry of his craft, and the sublimeaccessibility of his complex ideas, woven as they are into narratives which are themselves exquisite artistic accomplishments.”—SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE • “CONNELL’s skill is breathtaking.” —VILLAGE VOICE LITERARY SUPPLEMENT • “CONNELL has a raptor’s eye for what he calls ‘the luminous detail.’”—SMITHSONIAN • “These 20 erudite and entertaining historical essays…highlight CONNELL’s wide-ranging intellect and lucid prose. He revels in unexpected turns of fate and relishes the picturesque, strangely compelling details that historians often miss…. [THE AZTEC TREASURE HOUSE] will please any history, science or adventure buff.” —PUBLISHERS WEEKLY • “CONNELL is a connoisseur of everything arcane, exotic, ancient or bizarre: places, fauna, legends and feats, but above all personalities especially cranks, heretics and heroic failures.” —WASHINGTON POST • “Combining a poet’s vision with the narrative sweep of a born storyteller with painstaking historical research.” —LOS ANGELES TIMES • “CONNELL takes the essay form and jams into it stories from history, snippets of legend, and odd bits of chronicle…. These pieces exude a rare spirit that delights to find the marvelous in the actual.” —KIRKUS REVIEWS • “EVAN CONNELL is a master storyteller.” —WALL STREET JOURNAL • “CONNELL was my favorite writer, and the [20] essays...in this book…stand with SON OF THE MORNING STAR as my all-time favorite pieces by this magnificent author. Anyone who likes SON OF THE MORNING STAR, but who somehow has missed these essays, should try this wonderful book.” —J, AMAZON REVIEWS • “We believe he’s one of the most important postwar American writers. To be that good in fiction, nonfiction and poetry is really…remarkable.” —PATRICK LANNAN, THE LANNAN FOUNDATION • • For other details about this book, please see below. • TITLE: “THE AZTEC TREASURE HOUSE: New And Selected Essays” AUTHOR: EVAN S. CONNELL TYPE: HARDCOVER PAGES: 470 PUBLISHER, LOCALE, & YEAR: Counterpoint (Washington, D.C.), September 30, 2001 EDITION: First Edition, First Printing* *RE: On the Copyright Page, the statement “First Printing” & this Number Row: “10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1.” NOTE: This copy is NOT ex-library NOR a book-club edition.ISBN: 1-58243-162-0 CONDITION OF DUST JACKET: VERY GOOD PLUS. The price (28.00) is unclipped. Corners & spine tips are bumped. Light scratching on sides. 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