Peter Matthiessen has written eight novels, including At Play in the Fields of the Lord (nominated for the National Book Award) and Far Tortuga, and also a book of short stories, On the River Styx. His parallel career as a naturalist and environmental activist has produced numerous acclaimed works of nonfiction, most of them serialized in The New Yorker; these include The Tree Where Man Was Born (another National Book Award nominee) and The Snow Leopard (a National Book Award winner). He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1974.
“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
“Magnificent . . . breathtaking . . . Finally now we have [this
three-part saga] welded like a bell, and with Watson’s song the
last sound, all the elements fuse and resonate.”—Los Angeles
Times
“Peter Matthiessen has done great things with the Watson trilogy.
It’s the story of our continent, both land and people, and his
writing does every justice to the blood fury of his themes.”—Don
DeLillo
“The fiction of Peter Matthiessen is the reason a lot of
people in my generation decided to be writers. No doubt about
it. Shadow Country lives up to anyone’s
highest expectations for great writing.” —Richard
Ford
“Shadow Country, Matthiessen’s distillation of the earlier Watson
saga, represents his original vision. It is the quintessence
of his lifelong concerns, and a great legacy.”—W. S.
Merwin
“[An] epic masterpiece . . . a great American novel.”—The Miami
Herald
"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
"Magnificent . . . breathtaking . . . Finally now we have [this
three-part saga] welded like a bell, and with Watson's song the
last sound, all the elements fuse and resonate."-Los Angeles
Times
"Peter Matthiessen has done great things with the Watson trilogy.
It's the story of our continent, both land and people, and his
writing does every justice to the blood fury of his themes."-Don
DeLillo
"The fiction of Peter Ma tthiessen is the reason a lot of people in
my generation decided to be writers. No doubt about it. Shadow
Country lives up to anyone's highest expectations for great
writing." -Richard Ford
"Shadow Country, Matthiessen's distillation of the earlier Watson
saga, represents his original vision. It is the quintessence of his
lifelong concerns, and a great legacy."-W. S. Merwin
"[An] epic masterpiece . . . a great American novel."-The
Miami Herald
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