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Peter MatthiessenPublication Details
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LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) PS3563.A8584 S53 2008 AVAILABLE New Feature: Text this to your cellphone
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NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST 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. 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. 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.” Praise for Shadow Country ?Shadow Country is altogether gripping, shocking, and brilliantly told, not just a tour de force in its stylistic range, but a great American novel, as powerful a reading experience as nearly any in our literature. In every way, Shadow Country is a bravura performance, at once history, fiction, and myth?as well as the capstone to the career of one of the most admired and admirable writers of our time.? Miami Herald ?Matthiessen is writing about one man’s life in Shadow Country, but he is also writing about the life of the nation over the course of half a century. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Genre
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- 0679640193
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