Shadow Country - Paperback English by Peter Matthiessen - 7/2/1905

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ISBN 13: 9780857050007
ISBN 10: 857050001
Publisher: Maclehose Press
Editorial Review: Shadow Country is 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. This magnificent, sad masterpiece about race, history, and defeated dreams can easily stand comparison with Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man and Robert Penn Warren's All the King's Men. Little wonder, too, that parts of the story of E.J. Watson call up comparisons with Dostoevsky, Conrad, and, inevitably, Faulkner. In every way, Shadow Country is a bravura performance, at once history, fiction, and myth -- as well as the capstone to the career of one of the most admired and admirable writers of our time.'' --New York Review of Books ''Magnificent and capacious . . . I'll just say right here that the book took my sleeve and like the ancient mariner would not let go . . . Finally now we have these books welded like a bell, and with Watson's song the last sound, all the elements fuse and resonate . . . A breathtaking saga.'' --Los Angeles Times ''Matthiessen's Watson trilogy is a touchstone of modern American literature . . . After six or seven years of re-creation . . . the three books are in one volume for the first time, and the result is remarkable . . . Where Watson was a magnificent character before, he comes across as nothing short of iconic here; it's difficult to find another figure in American literature so thoroughly and convincingly portrayed.'' --Publishers Weekly (starred book review)
About the Author: Peter Matthiessen (May 22, 1927 - April 5, 2014) was an American novelist, naturalist, wilderness writer and CIA agent. A co-founder of the literary magazine The Paris Review, he was a 2008 National Book Award winner. He was also a prominent environmental activist. His nonfiction featured nature and travel, notably The Snow Leopard (1978) and American Indian issues and history, such as a detailed and controversial study of the Leonard Peltier case, In the Spirit of Crazy Horse (1983). His fiction was adapted for film: the early story "Travelin' Man" was made into The Young One (1960) by Luis Buñuel and the novel At Play in the Fields of the Lord (1965) into the 1991 film of the same name. In 2008, at age 81, Matthiessen received the National Book Award for Fiction for Shadow Country, a one-volume, 890-page revision of his three novels set in frontier Florida that had been published in the 1990s. According to critic Michael Dirda, "No one writes more lyrically [than Matthiessen] about animals or describes more movingly the spiritual experience of mountaintops, savannas, and the sea." Matthiessen was treated for acute leukemia for more than a year. His death came as he awaited publication of his final novel, In Paradise on April 8.
Language: English
Format: Paperback
Author: Peter Matthiessen
Edition Number: Uk Airports Edition
Publication Date: 7/2/1905