Shadow Country
2008 novel by Peter Matthiessen / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Shadow Country is a novel by Peter Matthiessen, published by Random House in 2008. Subtitled A New Rendering of the Watson Legend, it is a semi-fictional account of the life of Scottish-American Edgar "Bloody" Watson (1855–1910), a real Florida sugar cane planter and alleged outlaw who was killed by a posse of his neighbors in the remote Ten Thousand Islands region of southwest Florida.
Author | Peter Matthiessen |
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Original title | Shadow Country: A New Rendering of the Watson Legend |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Genre | Historical fiction, Southern Gothic |
Published | 2008 by Modern Library |
Media type | Print (hardback & paperback), audiobook, ebook |
Pages | 912 p. |
Awards | 2008 National Book Award for Fiction |
ISBN | 978-0-6796-4019-6 |
OCLC | 145431697 |
813.54 | |
LC Class | PS3563.A8584 |
Matthiessen revised, condensed, and combined his three previously published novels about Edgar Watson to create this single-volume novel, which is divided into three sections that conform to the three original books. Shadow Country won the National Book Award for Fiction in 2008[1] and the William Dean Howells Medal in 2010.