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Format: Hardcover
ISBN-10: 0679403779
ISBN-13: 9780679403777
Sep 1997
Publisher: Random House Inc
539 pages
Language: English |
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Synopsis
Peter Matthiessen's hero, Lucius Watson, is the son of the main character in his previous novel, "Killing Mister Watson". Lucius, a college professor, discovers a horde of new information about his violent and murderous father, and he travels deep into the Everglades to find out the truth.
| Size | | Length: | 539 pages | | Height: | 10.0 in | | Width: | 6.5 in | | Thickness: | 1.5 in | | Weight: | 32.8 oz |
Industry Reviews
"There is, as always with Matthiessen, some terrific writing, and the evocation of the tangle of Florida history and myth and swampland can be potent, but there is only one section of the book--a letter to Lucius from his brother Rob--where event and style and theme come together in a powerful and seamless bit of narrative. This letter shows what the novel might have been had it been conceived not as an intricate, mosaic meditation on the meaning of legend and history, but, in keeping with the title, as a strong, irresistible river of story."
Salon - Rachel Pastan (11/11/1997)
"Matthiessen has a perfect ear for the cadences of Southern speech, pitching each voice to education, region and age."
New York Times Book Review - Janet Burroway (11/23/1997)
"One of the delights of reading Matthiessen lies in discovering his memorable settings. Known as a nature writer..., he displays the same sensibility and appreciation of the natural world in his novels. He is also a superb stylist."
San Francisco Chronicle Book Review - Thomas Christensen (11/16/1997)
"A large, vivid, ambitious novel..., offering a powerful portrait of life among the hunters, renegades, and wanderers infesting the Florida Everglades in the century's early decades....Matthiessen has produced one of the best novels of recent years."
Port
"A good part of Matthiessen's sprawling, uneven novel comes straight from the characters' own mouths, but his ample skills as a naturalist and a journalist are in evidence, too."
Kleinzahler
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