NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER โขย โAltogether gripping, shocking, and brilliantly told, not just a tour de force in its stylistic range,ย but a great American novel, as powerful a reading experience as nearly any in our literature.โโMichael Dirda, The New York Review of Books
Killing Mister Watson, Lost Manโs River, and Bone by BoneโPeter Matthiessenโs great American epic about Everglades sugar planter and notorious outlaw E. J. Watson on the wild Florida frontier at the turn of the twentieth centuryโwere originally conceived as one vast, mysterious novel. Now, in this bold new rendering, Matthiessen has marvelously distilled a monumental work while deepening the insights and motivations of his characters with brilliant rewriting throughout.ย
Praise for Shadow Country
โMagnificent . . . breathtaking . . . Finally now we have [this three-part saga] welded like a bell, and with Watsonโs song the last sound, all the elements fuse and resonate.โโLos Angeles Times
โPeter Matthiessen has done great things with the Watson trilogy. Itโs the story of our continent, both land and people, and his writing does every justice to the blood fury of his themes.โโDon DeLillo
ย โThe fiction of Peter Maยญยญtthiessen is the reason a lot of people in my generationย decided to be writers. No doubt about it. Shadow Country lives up to anyoneโs highestย expectations for great writing.โ โRichard Fordย
โShadow Country, Matthiessenโs distillation of the earlier Watson saga,ย represents his original vision. It is the quintessence of his lifelong concerns, and a great legacy.โโW. S. Merwinย
โ[An] epic masterpiece . . . a great American novel.โโThe Miami Herald