Shadow Country

2008 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER

Peter Matthiessen’s great American epic – Killing Mister Watson, Lost Man’s River, and Bone by Bone – was conceived as one vast mysterious novel, but because of its length it was originally broken up into three books. In this bold new rendering, Matthiessen has cut nearly a third of the overall text and collapsed the time frame while deepening the insights and motivations of his characters with brilliant rewriting throughout. In Shadow Country, he has marvelously distilled a monumental work, realizing his original vision.