MASON'S RETREAT
by TILGHMAN, CHRISTOPHER
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0679452400
- ISBN 13
- 9780679452409
- Seller
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Durham, California, United States
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Synopsis
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 Vermont. Moving back to the more urban environment of Cambridge, Massachusetts, he became a corporate copywriter and sometime journalist before publishing In a Father's Place , a highly-praised collection of short stories. Mason's Retreat is his first novel. From the Hardcover edition.
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- Seller
- Wonderful Books by Mail (US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 135435
- Title
- MASON'S RETREAT
- Author
- TILGHMAN, CHRISTOPHER
- Illustrator
- Werner, HONI DJ COVER illustration
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- SPECIAL PREVIEW EDITION"
- ISBN 10
- 0679452400
- ISBN 13
- 9780679452409
- Publisher
- Random House~Trade
- Place of Publication
- New York, Ny, U.s.a.
- Date Published
- 1996
- Keywords
- Fiction, Advance Copy, PreviEW EDITION, Maryland coastal setting MD VIRGINIA VA, Sailboat Antique, Ww2 WWII
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