Watershed
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A rediscovered classic of politics, murder, and espionage by the National Book Award-winning author of James On a windswept landscape somewhere north of Denver, Robert Hawks, a feisty and dangerously curious hydrologist, finds himself enmeshed in a fight over Native American treaty rights. What begins for Robert as a peaceful fishing interlude ends in murder and the disclosure of government secrets. Everett mines history for this one, focusing on the relationship between Native American activists and Black Panther groups who bonded over their shared enemies in the 1960s Civil Rights movement. Watershed is an excellent example of Percival Everett's famed bitingly political narrative style.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0807016276
ISBN13:9780807016275
Release Date:March 2024
Publisher:Beacon Press
Length:208 Pages
Weight:0.50 lbs.
Dimensions:0.7" x 5.3" x 8.0"
Customer Reviews
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A mystery with a social conscience
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 23 years ago
Robert Hawks, a hydrologist, finds himself caught between the FBI and a Native American group in a mystery that deals with treaty rights, civil rights and water rights. Sounds a bit heavy doesn't it? But Everett pulls it all together in this book. Interspersed with actual treaty information, commentaries on peyote use, hydrology tables, this book moves effortlessly from the central mystery to Hawks' own past, filled with a distrust for authority, to Hawks' disastrous love life, Watershed seems to have a bit too much going on to be successful, but it is. Everettt builds the tension well and only the slightly pat ending interferes with the enjoyment of this book. But the journey is definitely worth your time.
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