Shadow Country: A New Rendering of the Watson Legend (MP3 CD)

Shadow Country: A New Rendering of the Watson Legend By Peter Matthiessen, Anthony Heald (Read by) Cover Image
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Shadow Country is Peter Matthiessen's reimagining of the legend of E. J. Watson, the Everglades sugarcane planter and notorious outlaw of the wild Florida frontier. Vividly capturing the American hinterlands at the turn of the twentieth century, it traces the story of Watson through eyewitness perspectives as he drives himself relentlessly toward his own violent end at the hands of neighbors who mostly admired him. 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." Originally written as three separate, acclaimed novels, this is Matthiessen's bold new distillation of his monumental work. Tightened and brilliantly rewritten throughout, he has collapsed the time frame while deepening the insights and motivations of his characters, achieving his original vision of the Watson trilogy.


Product Details
ISBN: 9781433278976
ISBN-10: 1433278979
Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks
Publication Date: January 15th, 2009
Language: English