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Shadow Country
Modern · Fiction, Historical Fiction, Literature

Shadow Country

by Peter Matthiessen
2008 · 892 pages · Fiction
45 Modern ★ 4.07 on Goodreads · 6K ratings
≈ 22 hours to read · about 6 weeks at 30 minutes a day

Is it worth reading?

National Book Award (Fiction) winner (2008). 4.07★ from 6K Goodreads ratings.

By the numbers

45Must-Read Score
  • Critics53 out of 100 · counts 35%+21
  • Readers42 out of 100 · counts 50%+24
  • Buzz0 out of 100 · counts 15%+0

Where it ranks

Won

Reads as

Moving, Gripping, Epic

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