Shadow Country Ausgezeichnet: National Book Awards, 2008

Altogether gripping, shocking, and brilliantly told, not just a tour de force in its stylistic range, but a great American novel, as powerful a reading experience as nearly any in our literature. Michael Dirda, The New York Review of Books

Magnificent . . . breathtaking . . . Finally now we have [this three-part saga] welded like a bell, and with Watson s song the last sound, all the elements fuse and resonate. Los Angeles Times

Peter Matthiessen has done great things with the Watson trilogy. It s the story of our continent, both land and people, and his writing does every justice to the blood fury of his themes. Don DeLillo

  The fiction of Peter Ma­­tthiessen is the reason a lot of people in my generation decided to be writers. No doubt about it. Shadow Country lives up to anyone s highest expectations for great writing.   Richard Ford 

Shadow Country, Matthiessen s distillation of the earlier Watson saga, represents his original vision. It is the quintessence of his lifelong concerns, and a great legacy. W. S. Merwin 

[An] epic masterpiece . . . a great American novel. The Miami Herald