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2008.
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NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • “Altogether gripping, shocking, and brilliantly told, not just a tour de force in its stylistic range, but a great American novel, as powerful a reading experience as nearly any in our literature.”—Michael Dirda, The New York Review of Books
Killing Mister Watson, Lost Man’s River, and Bone by Bone—Peter Matthiessen’s great American epic about Everglades...
Killing Mister Watson, Lost Man’s River, and Bone by Bone—Peter Matthiessen’s great American epic about Everglades...
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Watson trilogy volume 2
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English
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Murder suspect E.J. Watson is gunned down by an enraged mob, each claiming self-defense. Over four decades later, his son returns to the Florida Everglades in order to discover the truth.
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Takes the reader back to E.J. Watson's beginnings as a young boy growing up in a down-on-its-luck Southern family during and after the war, with a vicious father a mother who scorns her ill-bred spouse but won't protect her son. The boy's constant betrayal by those around him is neatly balanced by his own implacable savagery.
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