Bone by Bone

by Peter Matthiessen

Peter Matthiessen is one of America's most respected writers and one of the very few National Bank Award winners nominated for both fiction and nonfiction. *Bone by Bone* is arguable his finest novel. Although it stands alone, it is also the capstone of the Winston trilogy, which has been described by the *San Francisco Book Review* as "one of the grand projects of contemporary literature." In the critically acclaimed *Killing Mister Watson*, Peter Matthiessen brilliantly re-created the life of the legendary E.J. Watson, who was gunned down by a posse of fearful neighbors before World War I. In his masterful sequel, *Last Man's River*. Matthiessen returns us to the lawless frontier of the Florida Everglades, where Watson's son, Lucius, sought to untangle the knot of truth and lies surrounding his notorious father and his strange death. And now in *Bone by Bone* the story unfolds in its final form, in the voice of the enigmatic Mr. Watson himself. From his early days as an impoverished