Bone By Bone

Matthiessen, Peter

ISBN 10: 0375501029 / ISBN 13: 9780375501029

Published by Random House, New York, 1999

About this Item

A Fine second printing of the first edition in alike dust-jacket. SIGNED by author Peter Matthiessen directly on the title page; Edgar Watson was a boy in post Civil War South Carolina, the son of a brutal drunken father and a helpless mother. The story examines both the familial and the societal roots of Watson's violence, including the system of slavery that cheapened life for everyone it touched. Based on the real life character C. J. Watson, gunned down by a posse of neighbors before WWI. The last installment of The Watson Trilogy, after Killing Mr. Watson and Lost Man's River; 8vo; Signed by Author. Seller Inventory # 32661

Bibliographic Details

Title: Bone By Bone

Publisher: Random House, New York

Publication Date: 1999

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Dust Jacket Condition: Fine

Signed: Signed by Author(s)

Edition: First Edition; Second Printing.

About this title

Synopsis:

Continues the saga of anti-hero E.J. Watson, an entrepreneurial sugar cane farmer in the Everglades, exile in Indian territory, devoted husband, distant father, and allegedly, a cold-blooded killer

About the Author:

<b>Peter Matthiessen</b> was born in New York City in 1927 and had already begun his writing career by the time he graduated from Yale University in 1950. The following year, he was a founder of The Paris Review.  Besides At Play in the Fields of the Lord, which was nominated for the National Book Award, he has published six other novels, most notably Killing Mister Watson, Lost Man's River (the first and second books of this trilogy), and Far Tortuga. Mr. Matthiessen's parallel career as a naturalist and explorer has resulted in numerous and widely acclaimed books of nonfiction, among them The Tree Where Man Was Born, which was nominated for the National Book Award, and The Snow Leopard, which won it.