Bone by Bone (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Peter Matthiessen
- First Published: 1999
- Type of Work: Novel
- Time of Work: 1860’s-1910
- Setting: South Carolina, Indian Territory, and Florida
- Principal Characters: Edgar A. Watson, Ann Mary (“Charlie My Darling”) Collins Watson, Jane S. (Mandy) Dyal Watson, Catherine Edna (Kate) Bethea Watson, Robert Watson, Carrie Watson Langford, Edward Watson, Lucius Watson, Elijah (Ring-eye Lige) Watson, Ellen Addison Watson, Mary (Minnie) Watson Collins
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: Abused persons, Murder or homicide, South or Southerners, Nineteenth century, American Dream, Native Americans or American Indians, Outlaws, Frontier or pioneer life
- Locales: South Carolina, Florida, Indian Territory
Peter Matthiessen has written the story of Edgar Watson twice before. In Killing Mr. Watson (1990), the story was narrated by a variety of inhabitants of Florida’s Ten Thousand Islands, who had had more or less contact with Mr. Watson during his sojourns there. The collective voice of the community, with its commentary, questions, and speculations, served to create a myth of the man whom they finally had to murder to protect themselves. The myth and the man haunt Lucius Watson, youngest son of Edgar Watson’s second marriage, and he sets out to find the truth about his father,...
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