Shadow Country
NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • 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.-Michael Dirda, The New York Review of Books Killing Mister Watson, Lost Man's River, and Bone by Bone-Peter Matthiessen's great American epic about Everglades sugar planter and notorious outlaw E. J. Watson on the wild Florida frontier at the turn of the twentieth century-were originally conceived as one vast, mysterious novel. Now, in this bold new rendering, Matthiessen has marvelously distilled a monumental work while…
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- ISBN: 978-1-58836-824-9
- EAN: 9781588368249
- Produktnummer: 15715368
- Verlag: Random House Publishing Group
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2008
- Seitenangabe: 912 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 1'457 KB
- Abbildungen: 1 MAP
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Peter Matthiessen has written eight novels, including At Play in the Fields of the Lord (nominated for the National Book Award) and Far Tortuga, and also a book of short stories, On the River Styx. His parallel career as a naturalist and environmental activist has produced numerous acclaimed works of nonfiction, most of them serialized in The New Yorker; these include The Tree Where Man Was Born (another National Book Award nominee) and The Snow Leopard (a National Book Award winner). He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1974.
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