美國當代作家理查德．福特 ＆ 國家圖書獎和普利茲獎得主，當今在世的重要美國詩人-W S 默溫，讚譽的重量級作家。紐約時報、洛杉磯時報、國家地理探險雜誌、邁阿密先鋒報、聖彼得堡時報、西雅圖時報、出版人周刊等一致推薦。 2008 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER
Praise for Shadow Country
"The fiction of Peter Matthiessen is the reason a lot of people in my generation decided to be writers. No doubt about it. SHADOW COUNTRY lives up to anyone’s highest expectations for great writing." ---Richard Ford美國當代作家理查德．福特
"Peter Matthiessen’s work, both in fiction and non-fiction, has become a unique achievement in his own generation and in American literature as a whole. Everything that he has written has been conveyed in his own clear, deeply informed, elegant and powerful prose. The Watson saga-in-the-round, to which he has devoted nearly thirty years, is his crowning achievement. SHADOW COUNTRY, his distillation of the earlier trilogy, is his transmutation of it to represent his original vision. It is the quintessence of his lifelong concerns, and a great legacy."---W.S. Merwin國家圖書獎和普利茲獎得主 當今在世的重要美國詩人- W S 默溫
“Shadow Country is altogether gripping, shocking, and brilliantly told, not just a tour de force in its stylistic range, but a great American novel, as powerful a reading experience as nearly any in our literature. This magnificent, sad masterpiece about race, history, and defeated dreams can easily stand comparison with Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man and Robert Penn Warren’s All the King’s Men. Little wonder, too, that parts of the story of E.J. Watson call up comparisons with Dostoevsky, Conrad, and, inevitably, Faulkner. In every way, Shadow Country is a bravura performance, at once history, fiction, and myth–as well as the capstone to the career of one of the most admired and admirable writers of our time.”---The New York Review of Books
“Magnificent and capacious…. I’ll just say right here that the book took my sleeve and like the ancient mariner would not let go. Matthiessen has made his three-part saga into a new thing…. Finally now we have these books welded like a bell, and with Watson’s song the last sound, all the elements fuse and resonate….a breathtaking saga.”---The Los Angeles Times
“Gorgeously written and unfailingly compelling, Shadow Country is the exhilarating masterwork of [Matthiessen’s] career, every bit as ambitious as Moby Dick.”---National Geographic Adventure magazine
“Peter Mattiessen consolidates his epic masterpiece of Florida -- and crafts something even better…[He] deserves credit for decades of meticulous research and obsessive details and soaring prose that converted the Watson legend into critically acclaimed literature….Anyone wanting an explanation for what happened to Florida can now find it in a single novel, a great American novel.”---Miami Herald
“Matthiessen is writing about one man’s life in Shadow Country, but he is also writing about the life of the nation over the course of half a century. Watson’s story is essentially the story of the American frontier, of the conquering of wild lands and people, and of what such empires cost….Even among a body of work as magnificent as Matthiessen’s, this is his great book.”---St. Petersburg Times
“Shadow Country is a magnum opus. Matthiessen is meticulous in creating characters, lyrical in describing landscapes, and resolute in dissecting the values and costs that accompanied the development of this nation.”---Seattle Times