{"product_id":"lost-mans-river-shadow-country-trilogy-2-9780679735649","title":"Lost Man's River: Shadow Country Trilogy (2)","description":"One of the few American writers ever nominated for the National Book Award for both fiction and nonfiction presents the second novel in his \u003ci\u003eWatson\u003c\/i\u003e trilogy. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Lucius Watson is obsessed with learning the truth about his father. Who was E. J. Watson? Was he a devoted family man, an inspired farmer, a man of progress and vision? Or was he a cold-blooded murderer and amoral opportunist? Were his neighbors driven to kill him out of fear? Or was it envy? And if Watson was a killer, should the neighbors fear the obsessed Lucius when he returns to live among them and ask questions? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The characters in this tale are men and women molded by the harsh elements of the Florida Everglades--an isolated breed, descendants of renegades and pioneers, who have only their grit, instinct, and tradition to wield against the obliterating forces of twentieth-century progress: Speck Daniels, moonshiner and alligator poacher turned gunrunner; Sally Brown, who struggles to escape the racism and shame of her local family; R. B. Collins, known as Chicken, crippled by drink and rage, who is the custodian of Watson secrets: Watson Dyer, the unacknowledged namesake with designs on the remote Watson homestead hidden in the wild rivers; and Henry Short, a black man and unwilling member of the group of armed island men who awaited E. J. Watson in the silent twilight. Only a storyteller of Peter Matthiessen's dazzling artistry could capture the beauty and strangeness of life on this lawless frontier while probing deeply into its underlying tragedy: the brutal destruction of the land in the name of progress, and the racism that infects the heart of New World history. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e A story of epic scope and ambition, \u003ci\u003eLost Man's River\u003c\/i\u003e confronts the primal relationship between a dangerous father and his desperate sons and the ways in which his death has shaped their lives.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Vintage\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/29\/1998\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780679735649\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 560\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.90lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.08h x 5.20w x 0.94d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/04\/1998 pg. 36\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/15\/2005 pg. 173\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Peter Matthiessen","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51634848137397,"sku":"9780679735649","price":18.7,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_955e573c-bdef-4e7f-a862-9d9aba1e9c0e.jpg?v=1756789190","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/lost-mans-river-shadow-country-trilogy-2-9780679735649","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}