Mason's Retreat

by Christopher Tilghman

A family saga set in Maryland in the years just before the Second World War. Edith and Edward Mason, a wealthy American couple, return from an extended stay in Europe to take up residence at the Retreat, the Mason family estate on the shores of Chesapeake Bay. There, as the foreign war they had sought to avoid descends upon them, the family slowly and inexorably comes apart.

Available editions of Mason's Retreat

	9780312155865, Paperback, St Martins Pr, 1997 $1.00 (Very Good ) Other copies of 9780312155865

	9780679451631, Audio Cassette, Random House, 1996 $4.00 (Very Good with no dust jacket) Other copies of 9780679451631

	9780679427124, Hardcover, Random House Inc, 1996 $1.00 (Like New) Other copies of 9780679427124

	9780783818634, Hardcover, Thorndike Pr, 1996 $2.75 (Good) Other copies of 9780783818634

	9780812976243, Paperback, Random House Inc, 2006 $1.00 (Fine) Other copies of 9780812976243

Publisher Notes

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. Reader's Guide included. Reprint. 12,000 first printing.

Media Reviews

"'Mason's Retreat' is a stately, absorbing tragedy whose catastrophe arises less from a hasty exercise of personal passion than a civilized effort to accommodate the passions of others....Mr. Tilghman's book, so rooted in the idea of coming home, makes one realize all over again that here on Earth there is no such place."

First Line

Harry Mason can picture his grandfather, Edward, on the sundeck of the NORMANDIE, early morning, August, a pebbly North Atlantic mist.

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