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Shadow Country: A New Rendering of the Watson Legend

Contributor(s): Matthiessen, Peter (Author)

ISBN: 9780812980622

Publisher: Modern Library

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Pub Date: November 26, 2008

Dewey: FIC

Lexile Code: 0000

Features: Illustrated, Maps, Price on Product - Canadian, Price on Product

Target Age Group: NA to NA

Physical Info: 1.61" H x 7.92" L x 5.26" W ( 1.39 lbs) 912 pages

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Fiction | Literary | Sagas | Family Life | General

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Description: This landmark one-volume reworking of Matthiessen's Watson trilogy--"Killing Mister Watson," "Lost Man's River," and "Bone by Bone"--reveals one of America's finest writes at the peak of his career.

Review Quotes: "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

"Magnificent . . . breathtaking . . . Finally now we have [this three-part saga] welded like a bell, and with Watson's song the last sound, all the elements fuse and resonate."--Los Angeles Times

"Peter Matthiessen has done great things with the Watson trilogy. It's the story of our continent, both land and people, and his writing does every justice to the blood fury of his themes."--Don DeLillo

"The fiction of Peter Ma­­tthiessen is the reason a lot of people in my generation decided to be writers. No doubt about it. Shadow Country lives up to anyone's highest expectations for great writing." --Richard Ford

"Shadow Country, Matthiessen's distillation of the earlier Watson saga, represents his original vision. It is the quintessence of his lifelong concerns, and a great legacy."--W. S. Merwin

"[An] epic masterpiece . . . a great American novel."--The Miami Herald

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