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Killing Mister Watson (Panther)
by: Peter Matthiessen

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Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9781860464171
ISBN: 1860464173
Label: Harvill Pr
Manufacturer: Harvill Pr
Number Of Pages: 448
Publication Date: 1998-05
Publisher: Harvill Pr
Studio: Harvill Pr
Sales Rank: 565210

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Product Description:
By the author of "The Snow Leopard", "The Tree Where Man Was Born" and "On the River Styx", this novel is based around the circumstances of the death of a man in Florida 1910, who had terrorized his community in the Florida Everglades. It explores whether it was murder, exorcism or sacrifice.

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Average Rating: out of 5 stars

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- Four Stars And A Wink
So, I read all about the great to-do being made by Matthiessen purists when the trilogy Shadow Country (of which this book is the first part) won the National Book Award last month. But, wait a minute; the thing that has the purists ready to kill Mr. Matthiessen is that he has edited out several hundred pages of the books as they were published separately. Thus, only part of this book is part of the trilogy that won the award. Mr. Matthiessen is now a practicing Zen monk somewhere in the state of New York. Zen monks aren't particularly known for their verbosity; perhaps that has something to do with Matthiessen's paring down of the novel. I simply don't know. But, purely a personal quirk, I detest any and all things that have been abridged, and I've never seen quite such a hullabaloo ... Read More

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- This order was advertised as a hardcover, but I was sent a paperback...very disappointed in bookseller.
I was sent a paperback, not the hardcover book I ordered.
The book itself is fantastic.

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- Slow Going
I'm sure the vernacular is appropriate for the characters and setting of this book, but to me it felt like slogging through a Florida swamp. The premise/storyline just wasn't compelling enough to make me want to work that hard, and it was difficult to keep the characters straight. However, I had to admire the fact that the author took an actual historic event and built a fictional novel around it. That is hard, hard work!

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- Pros and Cons of Killing Mr. Watson
Pros: delightful narrative written in authentic dialect; interesting characters and plot promote further reading/research about Florida history.

Cons: characters' perspectives on events leading up to Mr. Watson's death become tedious and repetitious, especially during the last half of the novel. This book could have been condensed without losing any content.

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- Review of "Killing Mister Watson"
Killing Mr. Watson is a historical fiction based on the 1910 vigilante murder of Edgar Watson in the Everglades of southwest Florida. Mr. Watson is a shadowy character who appears in the south Florida town of Chokoloskee at the turn of the century, when south Florida was one the last unsettled frontiers. Mr. Watson is a hardworking plantation owner who considered by the local residents to be both generous and dangerous because of his proficiency with firearms and a hair-trigger temper. The combination of Mr. Watson's mysterious past, his proclivity for violence, and the strange disappearance or murder of laborers on his plantation lead his neighbors to gun him down following a major hurricane. The story of Mr. Watson is retold from the first person accounts of his family and neighbors, with ... Read More

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