Bone by Bone, Peter Matthiessen
Bone by Bone, Peter Matthiessen
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Bone by Bone

Author: Peter Matthiessen

Series: Watson #3

Narrator: George Guidall

Unabridged: 22 hr 20 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 07/03/2009


Synopsis

In 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.

This 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.

"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.""Watson’s voice is an artistic triumph … [Bone by Bone] may well come to be regarded as a classic."—San Francisco Chronicle Book Review

About Peter Matthiessen

Peter Matthiessen (1927–2014) was the author of more than thirty books, including the New York Times bestseller The Snow Leopard. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1974. He was cofounder of the Paris Review and won two National Book Awards, the 2000 Heinz Award in the Arts and Humanities, and the 2010 Spiros Vergos Prize for Freedom of Expression.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Ron

The cover of a new book about juvenile crime made me pause. It's called "Lost Boys: Why Our Sons Turn Violent," by James Garbarino (Free Press). On the front are two sweet looking kids about eight years old. One's holding a shotgun to the other's head. In a period of rapidly falling crime rates, inci......more

Goodreads review by Kevin

Book 3. Fantastic. Little backstory, I picked up Shadow Country the 2010 release from Peter Matthiessen that makes up these 3 novels in an re-edited, re-conceived single issue format. About 900 pages. I was going to do a reread but decided instead to read the 3 individual novels that made up Shadow......more

Goodreads review by James

Bone by Bone is the 3d volume in Peter Matthiessen's epic trilogy about E. J. Watson and the southwestern Florida coast at the turn of the century. I'd already read Killing Mr Watson, the 1st volume, when Matthiessen published his revision of the trilogy as Shadow Country. Rather than read that sing......more

I've spent a lot of my reading time over the last few months with this trilogy -- it is well-written, a fascinating story and place. My favorite was the first book; this one was the most painful to read. The first book was set entirely in south Florida; the second book did include some north Florida......more