Title: Shadow Country
Sub Title: A New Rendering of the Watson Legend
Author: Peter Matthiessen
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Year: 2008
Number of pages: 912
ISBN: 9780812980622
Synopsis: NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER ￢ﾀﾚￃﾄￂﾢￂﾬ￢ﾀﾠ 'Altogether gripping, shocking, and brilliantly told, not just a tour de force in its stylistic range,ￂﾬ￢ﾀﾠbut a great American novel, as powerful a reading experience as nearly any in our literature.''Michael Dirda, The New York Review of Books Killing Mister Watson, Lost Man's River, and Bone by Bone'Peter Matthiessen's great American epic about Everglades sugar planter and notorious outlaw E. J. Watson on the wild Florida frontier at the turn of the twentieth century'were originally conceived as one vast, mysterious novel. Now, in this bold new rendering, Matthiessen has marvelously distilled a monumental work while deepening the insights and motivations of his characters with brilliant rewriting throughout.ￂﾬ￢ﾀﾠPraise for Shadow Country 'Magnificent . . . breathtaking . . . Finally now we have [this three-part saga] welded like a bell, and with Watson's song the last sound, all the elements fuse and resonate.''Los Angeles Times'Peter Matthiessen has done great things with the Watson trilogy. It's the story of our continent, both land and people, and his writing does every justice to the blood fury of his themes.''Don DeLillo ￂﾬ￢ﾀﾠ'The fiction of Peter Maￂﾬ￢ﾉﾠￂﾬ￢ﾉﾠtthiessen is the reason a lot of people in my generationￂﾬ￢ﾀﾠdecided to be writers. No doubt about it. Shadow Country lives up to anyone's highestￂﾬ￢ﾀﾠexpectations for great writing.' 'Richard Fordￂﾬ￢ﾀﾠ'Shadow Country, Matthiessen's distillation of the earlier Watson saga,ￂﾬ￢ﾀﾠrepresents his original vision. It is the quintessence of his lifelong concerns, and a great legacy.''W. S. Merwinￂﾬ￢ﾀﾠ '[An] epic masterpiece . . . a great American novel.''The Miami Herald
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