 1st Edition cover | |
| Author | Peter Matthiessen |
|---|---|
| Original title | Shadow Country: A New Rendering of the Watson Legend |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Historical fiction, Southern Gothic |
| Published | 2008 by Modern Library |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print (hardback & paperback), audiobook, ebook |
| Pages | 912 p. |
| Awards | 2008 National Book Award for Fiction |
| ISBN | 978-0-6796-4019-6 |
| OCLC | 145431697 |
| 813.54 | |
| LC Class | PS3563.A8584 |
Shadow Country is a novel by Peter Matthiessen, published by Random House in 2008. Subtitled A New Rendering of the Watson Legend, it is a semi-fictional account of the life of Scottish-American Edgar "Bloody" Watson (1855–1910), a real Florida sugar cane planter and alleged outlaw who was killed by a posse of his neighbors in the remote Ten Thousand Islands region of southwest Florida.
Matthiessen revised, condensed, and combined his three previously published novels about Edgar Watson to create this single-volume novel, which is divided into three sections that conform to the three original books. Shadow Country won the National Book Award for Fiction in 2008[1] and the William Dean Howells Medal in 2010.
- ^ "National Book Awards – 2008". National Book Foundation. Retrieved 2012-03-09. (With interview, acceptance speech by Matthiessen, and essay by Harold Augenbraum from the Awards 60-year anniversary blog.)