The White Lantern And Other Pursuits - Couverture souple

"A brilliant browse." (John Leonard New York Times)

"These celebrations of man's insatiable drive to probe unknown frontiers, of time and space, body and mind, past and future read like superb novels, and must establish Connell as an important writer-poet-thinker with a truly original mind." (San Francisco Examiner)

"Man cannot be accounted for by a theory or a definition. He is his own irreducible variety, and this is Mr. Connell's subject in this enormously erudite, witty book. An antiquarian's attic; a trove of sidelights and overlooked details." (New York Times Book Review)

"He cherishes the unusual, telling fact about people and places. "Such details, like fine plums, ought to be plucked and tenderly boxed." This is a crate of the juiciest, temptingly presented." (Houston Chronicle)

Evan S. Connell, long recognised as one of the most important American literary voices, is the author of seventeen books, including Mrs Bridge, Mr Bridge and the bestselling Son of the Morning Star, his account of Custer's final battle at the Little Big Horn, and, most recently, his book about the crusades, Deus lo Volt! He lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.