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008			240910s2008 nyub 000 1 eng d
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082	0	0	_aFIC MAT
100	1		_aMatthiessen, Peter
245	1	0	_aShadow country : _ba new rendering of the Watson legend / _cPeter Matthiessen
250			_aModern Library ed.
260			_aNew York : _bModern Library, _c2008
300			_a892 p. : _c21 cm
520			_aPeter 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.
546			_aEnglish
600	1	0	_aWatson, Edgar J., _d1855-1910 _vFiction
650		0	_aFrontier and pioneer life _vFiction
650		0	_aMurderers _vFiction
651		0	_aEverglades (Fla.) _vFiction
655		7	_aBiographical fiction
655		7	_aHistorical fiction
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