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Winner of the 2008 National Book Award for Fiction Winner of the Publishers Weekly Listen Up Award 2009 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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"Magnificent and capacious…I'll just say right here that the book took my sleeve and like the ancient mariner would not let go…Finally now we have these books welded like a bell, and with Watson's song the last sound, all the elements fuse and resonate…a breathtaking saga."
Los Angeles Times
"Shadow Country is a magnum opus. Matthiessen is meticulous in creating characters, lyrical in describing landscapes, and resolute in dissecting the values and costs that accompanied the development of this nation."
Seattle Times
"Peter Mattiessen consolidates his epic masterpiece of Florida-and crafts something even better…[He] deserves credit for decades of meticulous research and obsessive details and soaring prose that converted the Watson legend into critically acclaimed literature…Anyone wanting an explanation for what happened to Florida can now find it in a single novel, a great American novel. -Miami Herald"
Peter Mattiessen consolidates his epic masterpiece of Floridaand crafts something even bet
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- SeriesShadow Country Trilogy