Shadow Country: A New Rendering of the Watson Legend
Language: English
Published by Modern Library, New York, 2008
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- Softcover
- Used
Seller: Second Edition Books, Butte, MT, U.S.A.Second Edition Books
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Interior clean, binding good but rather poorly glued at front and back. Small red (remainder?) mark on top page edges near spine. Pictorial cover with white lettering has lightly curled corner. Inscribed on title page"For Susan With kind regards. Peter Matthiessen." Matthiessen is writing about one man's life in Shadow Country, but he is also writing about the life of the nation over the course of half a century. Watson's story is essentially the story of the American frontier, of the conquering of wild lands and people, and of what such empires cost." St. Petersburg Times 892 pp.
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- Title
- Shadow Country: A New Rendering of the Watson Legend
- Author
- Matthiessen, Peter
- Publisher
- Modern Library, New York
- Publication year
- 2008
- Condition
- Good+
- Signed
- Signed by Author(s)
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 081298062X
- ISBN 13
- 9780812980622
- Printing
- 4th Printing
- Dimensions
- 8" Tall
- Seller catalogs
- PB Fiction, U.S. History
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.
Praise 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
"The fiction of Peter Matthiessen is the reason a lot of people in my generation decided to be writers. No doubt about it. Shadow Country lives up to anyone's highest expectations for great writing." --Richard Ford
"Shadow Country, Matthiessen's distillation of the earlier Watson saga, represents his original vision. It is the quintessence of his lifelong concerns, and a great legacy."--W. S. Merwin
"[An] epic masterpiece . . . a great American novel."--The Miami Herald
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