Bibliograph

Shadow country, a new rendering of the Watson legend, Peter Matthiessen

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Shadow country, a new rendering of the Watson legend, Peter Matthiessen

Language

eng

Illustrations

maps

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Shadow country

Oclc number

294778397

Responsibility statement

Peter Matthiessen

Sub title

a new rendering of the Watson legend

Summary

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

Target audience

general

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