Guyana [Hardcover]

Katherine Dunn (Author), Alexis Rockman (Illustrator), Jack Woody (Designer)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 88 pages
• Publisher: Twin Palms Pub; 1st edition (November 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0944092411
• ISBN-13: 978-0944092415
• Product Dimensions: 13.3 x 11.4 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.9 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,637,115 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars What Do You Want From This Book?, April 14, 2006

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Charles Glover - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Guyana (Hardcover)

A note to the buyer: This is not a novella or a novel by Katherine Dunn, author of "Geek Love." It is a collection of photographs by another artist with text written by Dunn. I have not read the book personally, but I have looked at her online bio and confirmed this. I give it five stars by default, as I have no real idea of its contents, only that a man took pictures of Guyana and Dunn commented on them.

4.0 out of 5 stars more a travel book than a literary work, November 12, 2010

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Mrs. Rose "Spanky" (Colorado Springs, CO) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Guyana (Hardcover)

The pictures were very lovely, but since I didn't read the description of what I was purchasing, I expected a work of literature. It was a nice book to flip through the pages, I did enjoy it.

5.0 out of 5 stars Crawling With Life, October 14, 2008

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Theseus "theseus" (US of A) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Guyana (Hardcover)

Rockman's art of the natural world (and of the natural world interacting with humankind's presence) is astounding -- loaded with information, carefully textured, sort of slick upon first glance...glossy and full of surfaces. However, these aren't fantasy creatures off some 1970's album cover, they're birds and bugs and leaves doing what they do, eating and flying and propagating, dripping with color, full of pollen, fecund and rich and disturbing.

His work messes with my head. In a good way.

Anyway.

This book was spun off a 6 week trip the artist made to Guyana in 1994, following in the steps of Darwin and Beebe and other naturalists who, apparently, did important field work in Guyana.

Contents

- Introduction
- Excerpt of William Beebe prose
- about 65 paintings, watercolors, and drawings including some large fold-out pages; drawings executed using "mud, raw sewage, and river water" (!)
- Essay by Katherine Dunn