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Peter Matthiessen
Shortly after I moved to Gloucester I saw a notice in the Gloucester Times that Peter Matthiessen would be speaking at The Bookstore on Main St. I figured I had moved to some place very special if I could just walk two blocks down the hill and hear someone like Peter Matthiessen. I couldn’t have been more correct.
I had just read Matthiessen’s The Snow Leopard and was besotted by the man. All my life I have fallen in love with writers the way lots of women fall for actors. And I was not disappointed. He is an impressive man and the fact that he was, at that time, recently widowed (widowered?) And had just written the most heart-breakingly beautiful book in the world added to that. If you haven’t read The Snow Leopard , you should. It was written about a trip he took shortly after the death of his wife. He traveled into the mountains of Nepal in search of a the mysterious and beautiful snow leopard and along the way, he encounters himself and all of life and what it means when a life ends. The book is made all the more poignant by the fact that he never does get to see a snow leopard. For me there was something so profound in that. It was as though his search was made more meaningful and more wonderful by the fact that he did not encounter the creature than if he had.
Since then I have read a lot of his books. His two great books about the American Indian, In the Spirit of Crazy Horse and Indian Country , are books that I take down from the shelf from time to time and get lost in again. But, and this will come as no surprise to those who know me, my favorite is Men’s Lives . A small book but utterly beautiful about the fishermen of Montauck where Matthiessen himself grew up and was a fisherman before becoming a writer and the founder of The Paris Review.
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