Midnight Turning Gray

Peter Matthiessen (1927-2014)

Signed 1988 Second Printing, Ampersand Press, Bristol, R.I.
Perfect-bound Paperback in FINE condition in original glossy gray wraps. Protected in a clear plastic envelope. 94 pp. Signed on the half-title page. Matthiessen won The National Book Award three times in both non-fiction and fiction titles. The Snow Leopard won in 1979 and 1980, in different categories, and Shadow Country won in 2014. "No one writes more lyrically [than Matthiessen] about animals or describes more movingly the spiritual experience of mountaintops, savannas, and the sea." ~Michael Dirda