Peter Matthiessen

KILLING MISTER WATSON "This növel stands with the best that our nation has produced as literature . . . As a philosophical study of the quality of humán - and all - nature [it] is first rate. As a political allegory, it is stunning"marianne wiggins, Los Angeles Times "A profound and convincing...

PREFACEThe unwary reader has in hand a "Zen book" composed against the best instincts of its author, who has no business writing upon a subject so incompletely understoodfar less a subject such as Zen, which is fundamentally impossible to write about.Journals kept during fifteen years of practice...