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Modern Library
April 2008
On Sale: April 8, 2008
912 pages
ISBN: 0679640193
EAN: 9780679640196
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Non-Fiction
Peter Matthiessen’s great American epic–Killing Mister
Watson, Lost Man’s River, and Bone by Bone–was 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 Watson’s wife observed, "still casts
its shadow over the nation." Peter Matthiessen’s lyrical and illuminating work in the
Watson narrative has been praised highly by such
contemporaries as Saul Bellow, William Styron, and W. S.
Merwin. Joseph Heller said "I read it in great gulps, up
each night later than I wanted to be, in my hungry
impatience to find out more and more."
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