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Mostly of the American writers ever nominated for the Country wide Book Prize for both fiction and nonfiction presents the next book in his Watson trilogy.
Lucius Watson is enthusiastic about learning the truth about his daddy. Who was simply E. J. Watson? Was he a committed family man, an encouraged farmer, a man of improvement and perspective? Or was he a cold-blooded murderer and amoral opportunist? Were his friends and neighbors driven to destroy him out of dread? Or was it envy? And when Watson was a killer, should the neighbors dread the obsessed Lucius when he results to live among them and have questions?
The personas in this tale are men and women molded by the severe elements of the Florida Everglades—an isolated breed, descendants of renegades and pioneers, who have only their grit, instinct, and tradition to wield from the obliterating makes of twentieth-century improvement: Speck Daniels, moonshiner and alligator poacher transformed gunrunner; Sally Dark brown, who struggles to escape the racism and pity of her local family; R. B. Collins, known as Poultry, crippled by drink and trend, who is the custodian of Watson secrets: Watson Dyer, the unacknowledged namesake with designs on the remote Watson homestead concealed in the open waterways; and Henry Short, a dark man and unwilling person in the band of armed island men who anticipated E. J. Watson in the silent twilight. Only a storyteller of Peter Matthiessen’s stunning artistry could get the wonder and strangeness of life on this lawless frontier while probing deeply into its fundamental tragedy: the brutal devastation of the land in the name of improvement, and the racism that infects the heart of " NEW WORLD " history.
A tale of epic scope and ambition, Lost Man’s River confronts the primal romance between a dangerous daddy and his eager sons and the ways that his death has shaped their lives.
