Bone by Bone - Hardcover

Matthiessen, Peter

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ISBN 10: 0375501029 ISBN 13: 9780375501029

Verlag: Random House Inc, 1999

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Continues the saga of anti-hero E.J. Watson, an entrepreneurial sugar cane farmer in the Everglades, exile in Indian territory, devoted husband, distant father, and allegedly, a cold-blooded killer

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<b>Peter Matthiessen</b> was born in New York City in 1927 and had already begun his writing career by the time he graduated from Yale University in 1950. The following year, he was a founder of The Paris Review.  Besides At Play in the Fields of the Lord, which was nominated for the National Book Award, he has published six other novels, most notably Killing Mister Watson, Lost Man's River (the first and second books of this trilogy), and Far Tortuga. Mr. Matthiessen's parallel career as a naturalist and explorer has resulted in numerous and widely acclaimed books of nonfiction, among them The Tree Where Man Was Born, which was nominated for the National Book Award, and The Snow Leopard, which won it.

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essen is one of America's most respected writers and one of the very few National Book Award winners nominated for both fiction and nonfiction. <b>Bone by Bone</b> is arguably his finest novel. Although it stands alone, it is also the capstone of the Watson trilogy, which has been described by the San Francisco Chronicle Book Review as "one of the grand projects of contemporary literature." <br>        <br>In the critically acclaimed <i>Killing Mister Watson</i>, Peter Matthiessen brilliantly re-created the life of the legendary E. J. Watson, who was gunned down by a posse of fearful neighbors before World War I. In his masterful sequel, Lost Man's River, Matthiessen returned us to the lawless frontier of the Florida Everglades, where Watson's son Lucius sought to untangle the knot of truth and lies surrounding his notorious father and his strange death. And now, in Bone by Bone, the story unfolds in its final form, in the voice of th

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• Verlag: Random House Inc
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0375501029
• ISBN 13: 9780375501029
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Sprache: Englisch
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 410
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