{"title":"Peter Matthiessen","description":"Peter Matthiessen 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 published six other works of fiction, including Far Tortuga and Killing Mister Watson. Matthiessen's parallel career as a naturalist and explorer resulted in numerous 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. Matthiessen died in 2014.","products":[{"product_id":"lost-mans-river-shadow-country-trilogy-2-paperback","title":"Lost Man's River: Shadow Country Trilogy (2) - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eOne 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\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.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50102765191391,"sku":"9780679735649","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/a0m6tWyV4h9780679735649.webp?v=1781087316"},{"product_id":"bone-by-bone-shadow-country-trilogy-3-paperback","title":"Bone by Bone: Shadow Country Trilogy (3) - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Watson's voice is an artistic triumph. . . \u003cb\u003eBone by Bone\u003c\/b\u003e] may well come to be regarded as a classic.\" --\u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003cb\u003eBone by Bone\u003c\/b\u003e, Peter Matthiessen speaks in the extraordinary voice of the enigmatic and dangerous E. J. Watson, whom we first saw, obliquely, through the eyes of his early twentieth-century Everglades community in \u003cb\u003eKilling Mister Watson\u003c\/b\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis astonishing new novel, calling to account the violence, virulent racism, and destruction of the land that fueled the so-called American Dream, points an accusing finger straight into the burning eyes of Uncle Sam. Here is the bloodied child of the Civil War and Reconstruction who dreams of recovering the family plantation. He becomes the gifted cane planter nearing success on a wilderness river when he gives in fatally to his accumulating demons. Powerfully imagined, prodigiously detailed, \u003cb\u003eBone by Bone\u003c\/b\u003e is a literary tour de force as bold and ambitious as Watson himself. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Like a true tragic figure,  Watson] knows and understands; he does not wriggle to save his own skin,\" said \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e. \"This is a work of genuine dignity.\"\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eWatson's voice is an artistic triumph. . .[Bone by Bone] may well come to be regarded as a classic. --\"San Francisco Chronicle Book Review \u003cbr\u003eIn Bone by Bone, Peter Matthiessen speaks in the extraordinary voice of the enigmatic and dangerous E. J. Watson, whom we first saw, obliquely, through the eyes of his early twentieth-century Everglades community in Killing Mister Watson. \u003cbr\u003eThis astonishing new novel, calling to account the violence, virulent racism, and destruction of the land that fueled the so-called American Dream, points an accusing finger straight into the burning eyes of Uncle Sam. Here is the bloodied child of the Civil War and Reconstruction who dreams of recovering the family plantation. He becomes the gifted cane planter nearing success on a wilderness river when he gives in fatally to his accumulating demons. Powerfully imagined, prodigiously detailed, Bone by Bone is a literary tour de force as bold and ambitious as Watson himself. \u003cbr\u003e\"Like a true tragic figure, [Watson] knows and understands; he does not wriggle to save his own skin,\" said \"The New York Times. \"This is a work of genuine dignity.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50103731454175,"sku":"9780375701818","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/HOukOxyvXO9780375701818.webp?v=1781097523"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/peter-matthiessen.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}