First edition of the author's first book bound in tan cloth and boards. A VG+ copy in a VG- dust jacket. Soiling to the edges of the book's upper page block. The pages are slightly darkened at their edges. Small rubs to the spine tips. Dust soiling t...
National Book Award FinalistThe basis for Mr. and Mrs. Bridge (1990), starring Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward “A perfect novel . . . economical, piquant, beautiful, true” that chronicles the lives of a wealthy family in 1930s Kansas throu...
Praise for Notes from a Bottle Found on the Beach at Carmel:“A unique tour de force.” --The New York Times Book Review“One of the most remarkable books that I have read in a long time.” --Kenneth Rexroth“Mr. Connell’s Notes are what one i...
The basis for Mr. and Mrs. Bridge (1990), starring Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward“A small masterpiece.” -- Joyce Carol OatesThe classic novel of a repressed upper"middle"class husband in the American Midwest, written in “spare, whimsical,...
Acclaimed author Evan S. Connell sends us through the complete experience of a man initially intrigued and then enslaved by art: a curious interest, a rapt fixation, and the becoming of a connoisseur. The Connoisseur trails the evolution of Muhlbach,...
Focuses on Prester John, Columbus, Paracelsus, seekers after sunken Atlantis and the lost treasure of the Aztecs, and other extraordinary men and women who have gone beyond the familiar and explored the unknown...
Through entries in journals, Paracelsus and other sixteenth-century alchemists offer their views of Paracelsus, alchemy, and the world. By the author of
This unnerving work is a contemplation of the middle"class existence in a changing world, narrated by an unstable man held hostage by his deteriorating mental state.The story begins with the unhappy marriage of junior clerk Earl Summerfield to the ...
Son of the Morning Star is the nonfiction account of General Custer from the great American novelist Evan S. Connell. Custer's Last Stand is among the most enduring events in American history--more than one hundred years after the fact, books continu...
God wills it! The year is 1095 and the most prominent leaders of the Christian World are assembled in a meadow in France. Deus lo volt! This cry is taken up, echoes forth, is carried on. The Crusades have started, and wave after wave of Christian pil...
From the critically acclaimed and best-selling author of Son of the Morning Star and Deus Lo Volt! comes a biography that breaks the mold-recounting with stunning immediacy the uncommon genius behind the renowned Spanish painter. Darkly brilliant and...
Capturing the spirit of arcane writing, Evan S. Connell delivers spectacular and esoteric prose as he imagines the journals of seven alchemists. The first is Paracelsus, the famous sixteenth"century alchemist, who is followed by an array of distinc...
Evan S. Connell is by any measure one of America’s greatest living writers. His restraint, concision, and perfect pitch lend themselves stunningly to the short story form. He intuitively senses when to explain and when to let silence stand in speec...
Karl Muhlbach, hero of Evan Connell's previous novel, The Connoisseur, has a new obsession -- a beautiful, nubile girl"about"New York named Lambeth Brent, whose puzzling background and swinging activities lead Muhlbach into dark areas, causing ne...
Another brilliant example of Evan Connell's art, The Patriot deals with an American boy who grew to maturity with World War II. He had learned his father's patriotism, and then, through the impact of firsthand experience, formulated his own.Melvin Is...