Mason's Retreat - Hardcover

Tilghman, Christopher

3.53

479 ratings by Goodreads

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0783818637 ISBN 13: 9780783818634

Publisher: G K Hall & Co, 1996

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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

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Unfolding with the grandeur and suspenseful inevitability of real life, Mason's Retreat tells the story of a family on the Eastern shore of Maryland on the eve of World War II. Tilgham's prose is graceful and effortless, and his feel for the ebb and flow of familial relations is instinctual. Following up on the promise of his short story collection, In a Father's Place, Tilgham takes his rightful place among the best writers of American fiction.

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r of In A Father's Place, Mason's Retreat is set on the Eastern shore of Maryland, on the eve of World War II and concerns the decline of the once-grand Mason family. Simultaneous hardcover release from Random House. 2 cassettes.

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