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DIY MFA Reading List: “Shadow Country” by Peter Matthiessen

posted in Blog on November 19, 2010 by David Eric Tomlinson 1 Comment

Father, Son … and Unholy Ghost: Peter Matthiessen’s “Shadow Country” presents an America struggling to recover from the hangover of the Civil War, as an entire community bears witness to the killing of “bloody” Mister E. J. Watson.

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