Lost Man's River

First UK edition. Large 8vo. Pp. [xiv (last blank)], 539. Navy-blue cloth boards, lettered in gilt to spine.

Signed by Author to title page.

A 1997 New York Times Notable Book of the Year. The second novel in Matthiessen's "Watson" trilogy (a project nearly twenty years in the writing), preceded by Killing Mr. Watson (1990) and book-ended with Bone by Bone (1999).

Set in the South Florida Everglades, each book tells the story of notorious Florida pioneer and sugar planter E.J. Watson, from a differing point of view. In this volume, it is the turn of Lucius Watson to try to piece together the truth about his father – a man branded a murderer and then himself savagely killed by a posse of vigilantes. In 2008 Matthiessen won the National Book Award for Shadow Country, which reworked the trilogy into a single volume. By the author of The Snow Leopard for which he won the 1979 National Book Award for Nonfiction.

"A large, vivid, ambitious novel... a powerful meditation on the sources of American violence... [and] one of the best novels of recent years." –Kirkus