Killing Mr Watson - Softcover

Matthiessen, Peter

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1860464173 ISBN 13: 9781860464171

Verlag: The Harvill Press, 1998

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Book by Matthiessen Peter

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In the 1890s Ed Watson came to the Florida wilderness known as the Ten Thousand Islands. Rumours about his violent past and ungovernable temper accompanied him and the islanders soon learned to respect and to fear him. In time he became the most successful man in the islands. The first novel in Peter Matthiessen s acclaimed Watson trilogy, this powerful book builds a portrait of its complex central character through the multiple voices of those who knew him. Through the shifting, changing narratives of people like Watson s own daughter Carrie, a plume hunter called Bill House and the Sheriff Frank Tippins, Matthiessen drives his story relentlessly forward to a bloody and violent conclusion. Based on his researches into the real-life figure of Watson, he has produced a novel that brilliantly conveys the fetid and unforgiving landscape of the Florida swamplands and the character of a man who came to dominate them.

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By the author of "The Snow Leopard", "The Tree Where Man Was Born" and "On the River Styx", this novel is based around the circumstances of the death of a man in Florida 1910, who had terrorized his community in the Florida Everglades. It explores whether it was murder, exorcism or sacrifice.

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• Verlag: The Harvill Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1998
• ISBN 10: 1860464173
• ISBN 13: 9781860464171
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 448