Books Download Shadow Country (Shadow Country Trilogy #1-3) Free

Shadow Country (Shadow Country Trilogy #1-3)

Peter Matthiessen

Hardcover | Pages: 892 pages

Rating: 4.04 | 4437 Users | 688 Reviews

List Books Supposing Shadow Country (Shadow Country Trilogy #1-3)

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)

Representaion As Books Shadow Country (Shadow Country Trilogy #1-3)

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."

Declare Appertaining To Books Shadow Country (Shadow Country Trilogy #1-3)

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

Rating Appertaining To Books Shadow Country (Shadow Country Trilogy #1-3)

Ratings: 4.04 From 4437 Users | 688 Reviews

Notice Appertaining To Books Shadow Country (Shadow Country Trilogy #1-3)

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

E. Watson, The DecemberistsMy copy of this book is 892 pages, and I understand the original manuscript was like 1300 pages. And then the Decembrists basically sum up Matthiessen's story in less than four minutes.Just sayin.This very large book is actually comprised of three separate novels (Killing Mister Watson, Lost Man's River, and Bone by Bone), but each of the novels basically tell the same story from someone else's perspective. This is actually pretty brilliant because you don't actually

Evil in the EvergladesThis is a long book in three parts. The first part is the story of EJ Watson as seen from the point of view of the community. The second part is seen by one of the sons of EJ as he does research to write a biography about his father. The third part is the story as seen by EJ himself. Occurring in the early 1900s in the south mostly in Southwest Florida we are confronted with the story of a murderer. EJ Watson is also known as Jack Watson and this is the clue that we are

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

In the early 1990s, Peter Matthiessen wrote his Watson trilogy, a 1400 page work that his publishers, to his discomfort, insisted on publishing in three volumes. Never satisfied with the work, feeling that it was disjointed and insufficiently integrated, Matthiessen began a number of years ago revising and extensively reworking the story, modifying it apparently significantly, and he published the new work last year as Shadow Country. I never read the trilogy indeed, the only Matthiessen work I

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

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