Peter Matthiessen's Shadow Country is an extraordinary literary achievement by one of this country's best authors of recent times. Enormous in scope as well as page count, it is really three books in one. Book one is told variously by the people who "knew" him (and ultimately killed him)/5(). Shadow Country () is a re-rendering of Matthiessen’s three volume Mister Watson series, Killing Mr. Watson (), Lost Man’s River (), and Bone by Bone (). On Charlie Rose and elsewhere, Matthiessen has pointed out that the work began as one very large novel, so large in fact that he chopped it into three to facilitate its publication, only he didn’t feel right about the separation so he went back to /5(). This copy of "Shadow Country" has been SIGNED by Peter Matthiessen on a laid-in bookplate! A new rendering of the Watson legend. Peter Matthiessen's great American epic - "Killing Mr. 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.
Matthiessen reduced the 1,page trilogy to a single volume, but, at pages, Shadow Country could still do considerable damage dropped on the head of a yappy dog or a whiny child. Shadow Country the story is historical fiction based on the life and death of Florida pioneer and supposed desperado Edgar Watson. Shadow Country the book has an interesting history as well. Matthiessen originally envisioned and submitted it as one work with three sections, each told from a different point of view. Matthiessen, Peter. SHADOW COUNTRY. The Modern Library, New York, , First American Edition. pp, 3 maps, Matthiessen combines three novels into this marvelous work, based on real life stories - Winner of the National Book Award for Fiction. Gorgeously written and unfailingly compelling, this story is the exhilarating masterwork of his.
Shadow Country is a novel by Peter Matthiessen, published by Random House in Subtitled A New Rendering of the Watson Legend, it is a semi-fictional account of the life of Scottish-American Edgar "Bloody" Watson, a real Florida sugar cane planter and alleged outlaw who was killed by a posse of his neighbors in the remote Ten Thousand Islands region of southwest Florida. It won the National Book Award for Fiction in and the William Dean Howells Medal in This copy of "Shadow Country" has been SIGNED by Peter Matthiessen on a laid-in bookplate! A new rendering of the Watson legend. Peter Matthiessen's great American epic - "Killing Mr. 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. Shadow Country by Peter Matthiessen. The news of it, this peculiar amalgamation called Shadow Country, washes up against wary skepticism in Florida. In other places, the notion that Peter.
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