Archive for July 20, 2009
SHADOW COUNTRY by Peter Matthiessen
I’ve been concerned about reviewing SHADOW COUNTRY from the get go. For starters, it is big at eight hundred and ninety-two pages. And there is the subject matter: Nothing less than a reckoning of the “last American frontier,” the turn of the century coast of southwest Florida, the Ten Thousand Islands, as reflected through the experience of a single, highly complex, enigmatic figure, Edgar J. Watson.
July 20, 2009
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Tags: 19th-Century, 800+ Pages, Historical, Wild West В· Posted in: Award Winning Author, Facing History, Florida, National Book Award, Real Event Fiction, Real People Fiction, Time Period Fiction, Wild West
