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Shadow Country (Shadow Country Trilogy #1-3)

Peter Matthiessen

Hardcover | Pages: 892 pages

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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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Shadow Country: Peter Matthiessen's New Rendering of the Watson Legend Edgar Artemas Watson (1855-1910)For seventeen days I was held enthralled by Shadow Country. Once I began it, I was unable to stop. Nothing could have pulled me away from it."A New Rendering of the Watson Legend" happens to be the subtitle of Peter Matthiessen's 2008 National Book Award winning novel. The operative word in that subtitle is Legend.A legend is a story founded in truth, indigenous to the people residing in the

Shadow Country by Peter Matthiessen won the National Book Award for Fiction in 2008.This is a beast of a book at 892 pages. If youve read Matthiessens fiction or non-fiction then you are familiar with his propensity to write two sentences when one might possibly suffice. Dont get me wrong he can write some descriptive and interesting prose. He was simply born to write.This book of historical fiction tells the life story of the outlaw E.J. Watson largely taking place in the shadow country of

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

Matthiessen's work here is really three books rolled into one. He rewrote his earlier Watson trilogy, and combined all three aspects into one book. Despite this, he labels the three distinct parts as Books I, II, and III. Book I is a culmination of diary entries/deposition-type statements by many of the people that came into contact with Edgar Watson in SW Florida, with many of the people being the ones who participated in the mass shooting/lynching that ended Watson's life. Book II is about the

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

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

I don't think I'll say I've abandoned this forever, but I definitely didn't finish it in January. It was the phenomenon that the farther in I got, the farther the end grew.