Mason's Retreat - Rilegato

Tilghman, Christopher

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ISBN 10: 0679427120 ISBN 13: 9780679427124

Casa editrice: Random House Inc, 1996

Riassunto

Returning to America after many years in England, Edward and Edith Mason and their two sons take up residence at The Retreat, the old family estate on the Chesapeake Bay, where the members of the family drift irrevocably toward tragedy on the eve of World War II. 40,000 first printing.

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Family Voices

"The Retreat," says Christopher Tilghman, "is modeled after my family's farm in Maryland. Tilghmans were all over the Eastern Shore in the 17th and 18th centuries, for the most part enriching themselves at the expense of others. They were prominent in the Revolutionary War mostly because they were tired of sharing their abundance with the king. Since then they have steadily declined, but the farm through certain miracles and detours has remained in the family."

Tilghman, who now lives with his wife and three sons in rural Massachusetts, began writing after graduating from Yale and serving briefly in the Navy. When publishing success at first eluded him, he earned a living at a sawmill in New Hampshire, and built a post-and-beam house with hand tools on a hilltop in Ver

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novel by the author of In a Father's Place confirms Tilghman as one of America's finest writers. Set on the Eastern shore of Maryland, on the eve of World War II, the story concerns the decline of the once-grand Mason family.

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• Editore: Random House Inc
• Data di pubblicazione: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0679427120
• ISBN 13: 9780679427124
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 290