{"product_id":"lost-mans-river","title":"Lost Man's River","description":"\u003cp\u003ePeter Matthiessen is one of the few American writers ever nominated for the National Book Award for both fiction and nonfiction.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen his novel\u003cbr\u003eKilling Mister Watson was published in 1990, the reviews were extraordinary. It was heralded as \"a marvel of invention . . . a virtuoso performance\" (\u003cbr\u003eThe New York Times Book Review ) and a \"novel [that] stands with the best that our nation has produced as literature\" (\u003cbr\u003eLos Angeles Times Book Review ). Now Peter Matthiessen brings us the second novel in his Watson trilogy, a project that has been nearly twenty years in the writing. A story of epic scope and ambition,\u003cbr\u003eLost Man's River confronts the primal relationship between a dangerous father and his desperate sons and the ways in which his death has shaped their lives.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLucius Watson is obsessed with learning the truth about his father. Who was E. J. Watson? Was he a devoted family man, an inspired farmer, a man of progress and vision? Or was he a cold-blooded murderer and amoral opportunist? Were his neighbors driven to kill him out of fear? Or was it envy? And if Watson was a killer, should the neighbors fear the obsessed Lucius when he returns to live among them and ask questions?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe characters in this tale are men and women molded by the harsh elements of the Florida Everglades--an isolated breed, descendants of renegades and pioneers, who have only their grit, instinct, and tradition to wield against the obliterating forces of twentieth-century progress: Speck Daniels, moonshiner and alligator poacher turned gunrunner; Sally Brown, who struggles to escape the racism and shame of her local family; R. B. Collins, known as Chicken, crippled by drink and rage, who is the custodian of Watson secrets; Watson Dyer, the unacknowledged namesake with designs on the remote Watson homestead hidden in the wild rivers; and Henry Short, a black man and unwilling member of the group of armed island men who awaited E. J.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Bookshop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43146265854015,"sku":"9780679403777","price":12.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/4566\/6623\/files\/9780679403777.jpg?v=1776697178","url":"https:\/\/thebookshopwp.com\/products\/lost-mans-river","provider":"The Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}