Shadow country a new rendering of the Watson legend
Record details
- ISBN: 9781588368249 (electronic bk. : Adobe Digital Editions)
- ISBN: 1588368246 (electronic bk. : Adobe Digital Editions)
- ISBN: 9781588368249 (electronic bk. : Mobipocket Reader)
- ISBN: 1588368246 (electronic bk. : Mobipocket Reader)
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Physical Description:
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xvi, 892 p. : map ; 21 cm. - Edition: Modern Library ed.
- Publisher: New York : Modern Library, 2008.
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Reproduction Note: | Electronic reproduction. New York : Random House Publishing Group, 2008. Requires Adobe Digital Editions (file size: 4643 KB) or Mobipocket Reader (file size: 1587 KB). |
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Subject: | Watson, Edgar J -- 1855-1910 -- Fiction Frontier and pioneer life -- Fiction Everglades (Fla.) -- Fiction Murderers -- Fiction |
Genre: | Biographical fiction. Historical fiction. Electronic books. |
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Summary:
Inspired by a near-mythic event of the wild Florida frontier at the turn of the twentieth century, Shadow Country reimagines the legend of the inspired Everglades sugar planter and notorious outlaw E. J. Watson, who drives himself relentlessly toward his own violent end at the hands of neighbors who mostly admired him, in a killing that obsessed his favorite son.--From publisher description.