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In this bold new rendering, matthiessen has cut nearly a third of the overall text and collapsed the time frame while deepening the insights and motivations of his. Jan 26, 2009 shadow country book ii peter matthiessen at the end of book i, we are introduced to nell dyer, and more closely to lucius watson. Shadow country a new rendering of the watson legend book. Enormous in scope as well as page count, it is really three books in one.
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