Shadow Country
of Peter Matthiessen
Series: Shadow Country Trilogy #1-3
Description
Peter Matthiessenâs great American epicâKilling Mister Watson, Lost Manâs River, and Bone by Boneâwas conceived as one vast mysterious novel, but because of its length it was originally broken up into three books. In this bold new rendering, Matthiessen has cut nearly a third of the overall text and collapsed the time frame while deepening the insights and motivations of his characters with brilliant rewriting throughout. In Shadow Country, he has marvelously distilled a monumental work, realizing his original vision. Inspired by a near-mythic event of the wild Florida frontier at the turn of the twentieth century, Shadow Country reimagines the legend of the inspired Everglades sugar planter and notorious outlaw E. J. Watson, who drives himself relentlessly toward his own violent end at the hands of neighbors who mostly admired him, in a killing that obsessed his favorite son.Shadow Country traverses strange landscapes and frontier hinterlands inhabited by Americans of every provenance and color, including the black and Indian inheritors of the archaic racism that, as Watsonâs wife observed, "still casts its shadow over the nation."
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- Format Hardcover
- Pages 892 pages
- Publisher Modern Library
- Publication Date April 8th 2008
- First Publication 10/28/08
- Language English
- ISBN 9999999999999
- Edition Modern Library
- Category Fiction
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