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Item specifics
- Condition
- Publication Date
- 2013-04-30
- Pages
- 368
- ISBN
- 9781250033284
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Picador
ISBN-10
1250033284
ISBN-13
9781250033284
eBay Product ID (ePID)
143639663
Product Key Features
Book Title
Right-Hand Shore : a Novel
Number of Pages
368 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Family Life, Literary
Publication Year
2013
Genre
Fiction
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
11.3 Oz
Item Length
8.1 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Reviews
I just kept rereading isolated sentences--like lines of poetry--to savor his descriptions....With The Right-Hand Shore , Tilghman remains 'the real deal.', " The Right-Hand Shore is the dark, magisterial creation of a writer with an uncanny feel for the intersections of place and character in American history_ .Tilghman unfolds his harsh lesson with precision, delicacy, and startling humor."- The New York Times Book Review "I just kept rereading isolated sentences-like lines of poetry-to savor his descriptions_ .With The Right-Hand Shore , Tilghman remains ,the real deal.'"-Maureen Corrigan, NPR's Fresh Air "Elegant and engrossing_ Tilghman writes so beautifully_ [weaving] an intoxicating spell."-John Freeman, The Boston Globe, Rich in narrative and vision, this is an absorbing and poignant tale of family, race, and love of land., " The Right-Hand Shore is the dark, magisterial creation of a writer with an uncanny feel for the intersections of place and character in American history....Tilghman unfolds his harsh lesson with precision, delicacy, and startling humor." -- The New York Times Book Review "I just kept rereading isolated sentences--like lines of poetry--to savor his descriptions....With The Right-Hand Shore , Tilghman remains 'the real deal.'" -- Maureen Corrigan, NPR's Fresh Air "Elegant and engrossing...Tilghman writes so beautifully...[weaving] an intoxicating spell." -- John Freeman, The Boston Globe "Tilghman maneuvers through the misery of three generations, following each elegant plot turn inevitably back to its source: this living breathing land on the shores of the Chesapeake Bay....The tale's descent into tragedy is nevertheless beautiful...Exquisite." -- Publishers Weekly (starred review) "Rich in narrative and vision, this is an absorbing and poignant tale of family, race, and love of land." -- Booklist "Christopher Tilghman is a novelist's novelist in that he can hold the years in his head and then deal them out in a layered story so achingly gracious and incisive that it becomes for a week in a reader's house the very reason for the chair, the lamp. The story of these families, race, a love that is ultimately natural and forbidden, the history of peaches, offered in Tilghman's astonishing prose is a reader's deep pleasure...This is a big, wonderful novel." -- Ron Carlson, author of The Signal and Five Skies, Tilghman maneuvers through the misery of three generations, following each elegant plot turn inevitably back to its source: this living breathing land on the shores of the Chesapeake Bay....The tale's descent into tragedy is nevertheless beautiful...Exquisite., " The Right-Hand Shore is the dark, magisterial creation of a writer with an uncanny feel for the intersections of place and character in American history... .Tilghman unfolds his harsh lesson with precision, delicacy, and startling humor."- The New York Times Book Review "I just kept rereading isolated sentences-like lines of poetry-to savor his descriptions... .With The Right-Hand Shore , Tilghman remains ,the real deal.'"-Maureen Corrigan, NPR's Fresh Air "Elegant and engrossing... Tilghman writes so beautifully... [weaving] an intoxicating spell."-John Freeman, The Boston Globe, " The Right-Hand Shore is the dark, magisterial creation of a writer with an uncanny feel for the intersections of place and character in American history....Tilghman unfolds his harsh lesson with precision, delicacy, and startling humor."- The New York Times Book Review "I just kept rereading isolated sentences-like lines of poetry-to savor his descriptions....With The Right-Hand Shore , Tilghman remains 'the real deal.'"-Maureen Corrigan, NPR's Fresh Air "Elegant and engrossing...Tilghman writes so beautifully...[weaving] an intoxicating spell."-John Freeman, The Boston Globe "Tilghman maneuvers through the misery of three generations, following each elegant plot turn inevitably back to its source: this living breathing land on the shores of the Chesapeake Bay….The tale's descent into tragedy is nevertheless beautiful…Exquisite."- Publishers Weekly (starred review) "Rich in narrative and vision, this is an absorbing and poignant tale of family, race, and love of land."- Booklist "Christopher Tilghman is a novelist's novelist in that he can hold the years in his head and then deal them out in a layered story so achingly gracious and incisive that it becomes for a week in a reader's house the very reason for the chair, the lamp. The story of these families, race, a love that is ultimately natural and forbidden, the history of peaches, offered in Tilghman's astonishing prose is a reader's deep pleasure…This is a big, wonderful novel."-Ron Carlson, author of The Signal and Five Skies, The Right-Hand Shore is the dark, magisterial creation of a writer with an uncanny feel for the intersections of place and character in American history....Tilghman unfolds his harsh lesson with precision, delicacy, and startling humor., Christopher Tilghman is a novelist's novelist in that he can hold the years in his head and then deal them out in a layered story so achingly gracious and incisive that it becomes for a week in a reader's house the very reason for the chair, the lamp. The story of these families, race, a love that is ultimately natural and forbidden, the history of peaches, offered in Tilghman's astonishing prose is a reader's deep pleasure...This is a big, wonderful novel.
Dewey Edition
23
TitleLeading
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Dewey Decimal
813/.54
Synopsis
A New York Times Notable Book of the Year A masterful novel that confronts the dilemmas of race, family, and forbidden love in the wake of America's Civil War Fifteen years after the publication of his acclaimed novel Mason's Retreat , Christopher Tilghman returns to the Mason family and the Chesapeake Bay in The Right-Hand Shore . It is 1920, and Edward Mason is making a call upon Miss Mary Bayly, the current owner of the legendary Mason family estate, the Retreat. Miss Mary is dying. She plans to give the Retreat to the closest direct descendant of the original immigrant owner that she can find. Edward believes he can charm the old lady, secure the estate and be back in Baltimore by lunchtime. Instead, over the course of a long day, he hears the stories that will forever bind him and his family to the land. He hears of Miss Mary's grandfather brutally selling all his slaves in 1857 in order to avoid the reprisals he believes will come with Emancipation. He hears of the doomed efforts by Wyatt Bayly, Miss Mary's father, to turn the Retreat into a vast peach orchard, and of Miss Mary and her brother growing up in a fractured and warring household. He learns of Abel Terrell, son of free blacks who becomes head orchardist, and whose family becomes intimately connected to the Baylys and to the Mason legacy. The drama in this richly textured novel proceeds through vivid set pieces: on rural nineteenth-century industry; on a boyhood on the Eastern Shore of Maryland; on the unbreakable divisions of race and class; and, finally, on two families attempting to save a son and a daughter from the dangers of their own innocent love. The result is a radiant work of deep insight and peerless imagination about the central dilemma of American history. The Right-Hand Shore is a New York Times Notable Book of 2012.
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