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When his novel  Killing Mister Watson  was published in 1990, the reviews were extraordinary. It was heralded as "a marvel of invention . . . a virtuoso performance" ( The New York Times Book Review ) and a "novel [that] stands with the best that our nation has produced as literature" ( Los 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,  Lost 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. Lucius 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? The characters in this tale are men and women molded by the harsh elements of the Florida Everglades—an isolated breed, descendant

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Author

Peter Matthiessen

Publisher

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group;Vintage Books

Published

2012

Language

EN

ISBN

9780307819659

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Thriller, Literary Fiction

Rating

4.5 / 5 (70 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14