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Shadow Country (Shadow Country Trilogy #1-3)

Peter Matthiessen

Hardcover | Pages: 892 pages

Rating: 4.04 | 4437 Users | 688 Reviews

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Original Title:	Shadow Country
Edition Language:	English
Series:	Shadow Country Trilogy #1-3
Literary Awards:	National Book Award for Fiction (2008), William Dean Howells Medal (2010)

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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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Title	:	Shadow Country (Shadow Country Trilogy #1-3)
Author	:	Peter Matthiessen
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Modern Library
Pages	:	Pages: 892 pages
Published	:	April 8th 2008 by Modern Library (first published 2008)
Categories	:	Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. Novels. Literature

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In this churchyard in a woodland meadow at the end of a white road, he missed what he had never known, the peace of living one day then another in communion with others of ones blood and at the end, at the close of ones works and days, to draw that last breath and come to rest in earth where ones bones belonged.It is strange that this one escaped my wobbly notation, my wayward sense of inventory. Shadow Country was picked up in Indianapolis over a Memorial Day weekend and immediately masticated

The historical Edgar J. Watson (1855-1910) was a drunken murderer, bully, philanderer, cheat and conniving so and so. He was a pioneering settler of the southwest coast of Florida in the final decade of the 19th century and the first decade of the 20th.He had an over-sized reputation as a desperado. He was thought to have killed Belle Starr, the Oklahoma territory outlaw, and was the subject of a dime store novel based on the legend of her demise. Although he was never charged, it seems clear

The fact that I read "Shadow Country" over a long period of time should not be taken as a negative reflection on the book, but I suppose my rating hints at that. This is a masterpiece, but one I chose to read slowly with breaks after each section. The story of Mister Watson, which begins on the last day of his life, is full of turn of the 20th century life, details of frontier life I'd never heard of before---that frontier being Florida. Edgar Watson is many things to many people, but he is

A brutal thriller and a literary wonder. Be advised: this is not a beach read. Book One is all first-person dialect, which as we know slows the reader down. If you can skim it you very well may be some sort of lexical genius. Theres no rule of law in Ten Thousand Islands, Florida, as the twentieth-century begins. As you would expect in such circumstances, men will misbehave: steal, fornicate, murder et al. The whole of Book One is an indictment of E.J. Watson, a settler among the mangroves, a

Read this novel! Absolutely fascinating account of life along the Florida Everglades gulf coast and development in the late-19th and early-20th centuries through the eyes and actions of the real-life character of Edgar Watson. This is one of those rare novels where it is truly difficult to sort out your own feelings for the plot's main protagonist. Sometimes you love him, and sometimes he is a real bastard. Just like like each of us, Edgar is a flawed character; and Mattiesson invests much of

Wow.Shadow Country is a searing dissection of turn of the century (circa 1880-1910) Everglades culture, history and character. The focal character is E.J. Watson, sugar cane planter, innovator, patriarch, murderer, and victim. The novel is comprised of three 'books', all telling the story of the death of Watson from separate points of view: first, various people who witnessed and assessed the events at the time; second, one of Watson's sons, trying (maybe) to reconstruct Watson's life and

Shadow Country (2008) is a re-rendering of Matthiessens three volume Mister Watson series, Killing Mr. Watson (1990), Lost Mans River (1997), and Bone by Bone (1999). On Charlie Rose and elsewhere, Matthiessen has pointed out that the work began as one very large novel, so large in fact that he chopped it into three to facilitate its publication, only he didnt feel right about the separation so he went back to work on it to make it work as a single volume novel. He cut and he rewrote over