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Shadow Country is Peter Matthiessen's re-imagining of the legend of E. J. Watson, the Everglades sugar planter and notorious outlaw of the wild Florida frontier. Vividly capturing the American hinterlands at the turn of the twentieth century, it traces the story of Watson through eyewitness perspectives as he drives himself relentlessly toward his own violent end at the hands of neighbors who mostly admired him. Originally written as three separate, acclaimed novels, Shadow Country is Matthiessen's bold new distillation of his monumental work. Tightened and brilliantly rewritten throughout, he has collapsed the time frame while deepening the insights and motivations of his characters, achieving his original vision of the Watson trilogy.
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third-person narrative, first-person narrative, Scottish Americans, sugar cane, planter class, Posse comitatus, Fiction, Literature, National Book Award Winner, award:national_book_award=2008, award:national_book_award=fiction, Frontier and pioneer life, Murderers, Frontier and pioneer life, fiction, Florida, fiction, Watson, edgar j., 1855-1910, fiction, Fiction, historical, Fiction, biographical, nyt:trade-fiction-paperback=2008-12-28, New York Times bestseller, Crime, fiction, Fiction, historical, general, American fiction, Diaries, Romans, nouvelles, Meurtriers, Roman américain, Historical fictionPeople
Edgar J. Watson, Lucius Watson, Erskine ThompsonPlaces
Chokoloskee, Florida, Fort Myers, Marco Island, Key West, Everglades, Ten Thousand Islands, Southwest Florida, Ted Smallwood Store, South CarolinaTimes
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Shadow Country: A New Rendering Of The Watson Legend
2011 05 25, Blackstone Audio
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1433278995 9781433278990
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Shadow Country: A New Rendering of the Watson Legend
2008, Random House Publishing Group
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081298062X 9780812980622
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Shadow Country
2008, Random House Publishing Group
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1588368246 9781588368249
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Shadow Country: A New Rendering of the Watson Legend: Library Edition
Publish date unknown, Blackstone Audio Inc
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1433278944 9781433278945
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Shadow Country: A New Rendering of the Watson Legend: Library Edition
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1433287668 9781433287664
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Peter Matthiessen’s great American epic–Killing Mister 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. In this bold new rendering, Matthiessen has cut nearly a third of the overall text and collapsed the time frame while deepening the insights and motivations of his characters with brilliant rewriting throughout. In Shadow Country, he has marvelously distilled a monumental work, realizing his original vision.
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 inspired Everglades sugar planter and notorious outlaw E. J. Watson, who drives himself relentlessly toward his own violent end at the hands of neighbors who mostly admired him, in a killing that obsessed his favorite son.
Shadow Country traverses strange landscapes and frontier hinterlands inhabited by Americans of every provenance and color, including the black and Indian inheritors of the archaic racism that, as Watson’s wife observed, "still casts its shadow over the nation."
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