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Peter Matthiessen is one of America's most respected writers and one of the very few National Bank Award winners nominated for both fiction and nonfiction. Bone by Bone is arguable his finest novel. Although it stands alone, it is also the capstone of the Winston trilogy, which has been described by the San Francisco Book Review as "one of the grand projects of contemporary literature."
In the critically acclaimed Killing Mister Watson, Peter Matthiessen brilliantly re-created the life of the legendary E.J. Watson, who was gunned down by a posse of fearful neighbors before World War I. In his masterful sequel, Last Man's River. Matthiessen returns us to the lawless frontier of the Florida Everglades, where Watson's son, Lucius, sought to untangle the knot of truth and lies surrounding his notorious father and his strange death. And now in Bone by Bone the story unfolds in its final form, in the voice of the enigmatic Mr. Watson himself.
From his early days as an impoverished child of the Reconstruction era, through the unjust loss of his inherited plantation, to his bloody death in front of his loving wife and children, E.J. Watson was capable of vision and ingenuity, mercy and courage, and sudden, astonishing violence. He was an entrepreneurial sugarcane farmer in the uncharted waterways of the Everglades, an exile in the Indian territories, a devoted father, and, allegedly, the killer of numerous men. He was forced to flee home and family time after time.
In Bone by Bone, Peter Matthiessen has accomplished the writer's ultimate challenge. He has laid bare the humanity at the heart of a dangerous and controversial figure and, in doing so, has added to our understanding of the abiding mystery of human nature.
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Fiction, History, Frontier and pioneer life, SugarcanePeople
Edgar J. Watson (1855-1910)Places
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Sequal to: Killing Mister Watson and Lost Man's River.
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