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Mason's Retreat.

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Mason's Retreat.

by TILGHMAN, Christopher

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ISBN 10
0679452400
ISBN 13
9780679452409
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New York: Random House, 1996. Signed by the author on the title page. First edition / First printing. Special preview edition with different dust jacket from the trade edition. Blue cloth spine, beige paper-covered boards. Very fine in very fine dust jacket.

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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Bookseller
Orpheus Books US (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #
10899-1
Title
Mason's Retreat.
Author
TILGHMAN, Christopher
Format/Binding
Blue cloth spine, beige paper-covered boards.
Book Condition
New As New
Jacket Condition
Fine
Quantity Available
1
Edition
First edition / First printing. Special preview edition with dif
Binding
Hardcover
ISBN 10
0679452400
ISBN 13
9780679452409
Publisher
Random House,
Place of Publication
New York:
Date Published
1996.
Bookseller catalogs
Fiction; z4;

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