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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 Everglades sugar planter and notorious outlaw E. J. Watson, who drives himself to his own violent end at the hands of his neighbours. Following the story of his son Lucius as he tries to learn the truth about his father, the story tells of devastating events and traverses wild landscapes inhabited by Americans of every provenance and colour. In this new rendering of the Watson trilogy, Matthiessen has consolidated his fictional masterwork into a poetic, compelling novel of a vast scope and ambition, with breathtaking accomplishment.
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Peter Matthiessen - novelist, naturalist and explorer - is the only writer to have won National Book Awards in fiction and non-fiction. As well as the Watson Trilogy, his fiction includes At Play in the Fields of the Lord and Far Tortuga. His non-fiction includes The Snow Leopard (National Book Award winner) and In the Spirit of Crazy Horse. He was one of the founders of the Paris Review and his pieces appear regularly in the New Yorker and the New York Review of Books.
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Shadow Country. A New Rendering of the Watson Legend
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MacLehose Press, London, 2010
ISBN 10: 0857050001
ISBN 13: 9780857050007
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Seller: Arapiles Mountain Books - Mount of Alex, Castlemaine, VIC, Australia
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Hard Cover. Condition: F. Dust Jacket Condition: F. First UK. F/F. 8vo. original brown boards gilt in dustwrapper (a trifle rubbed); pp. xiv, 894. Heavy item (1.8 kg), additional postage may be required for international delivery. A fine copy. Winner of the American National Book Award. A revised distillation of three previously published works, 'Killing Mister Watson' (1990), 'Lost Man's River' (1997) and 'Bone by Bone' (1999), into a single novel as original envisaged. Seller Inventory # 016815
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