Going to Miami: Exiles, Tourists, and Refugees in the New America.

RIEFF, David. [Peter Matthiessen].

$125.00

Item Number: 135144

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1987.

First edition of Rieff’s classic work on the complex history of Miami, Florida. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half title page, “For Maria, with much love. David New York IX.9.87.” The recipient, Maria Eckhart was the third wife of American writer Peter Matthiessen. American writer Peter Matthiessen remains the only writer to have won the National Book Award in both nonfiction (The Snow Leopard, 1979) and fiction (Shadow Country, 2008). A prominent environmental activist, Matthiessen received the National Book Award for Fiction in 2008 at the age of 81 for Shadow Country. “No one writes more lyrically [than Matthiessen] about animals or describes more movingly the spiritual experience of mountaintops, savannas, and the sea” (Michael Dirda). With Matthiessen’s bookplate to the pastedown. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Timothy Weekly.

"A book that restores one's faith in the foreignness of America. A shrewd, inquisitive guide to a city that has been over-glamourized, much condescended to (though not by Rieff), and rarely understood - and to one of the world's oddest and most intensely knit exiled communities, the Cubans in Miami. Read before heading south" (Robert Hughes).