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Unadbridged Audiobook. A powerful and passionate masterpiece, BONE BY BONE is set during the Reconstruction Era. Edgar Watson grew up in the South at the mercy of a brutal alcoholic fater and a vindictive mother. Witnessing the horrors of slavery, bilked out of his inheritance, and blamed in his youth for a murder he didn't commit, E.J. developed a reputation for violence that preceded him everywhere he went. Tinally it brought him to a tragic and bloody end as his family watched in helpless horror. This is an intricate tale of fear, terror and does not unravel the truth until the strangely twisted end.
A novel by the author of Lost Man's River
This book had me in knots almost the whole way, it was so moving. Matthiessen actually gets inside the head of a very violent man and imagines what his side of the story might be... and makes it understandable even if not excusable.
