On The Rivershore

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1990. Limited Edition [stated], Signed by Author. Wraps. Very good/Clear plastic dust wrapper. Unpaginated (32) pages. Clear plastic dust wrapper. Signed by the author on the title page. This was issued as a New Year's greeting to friends of the publisher. This is the first story in Christopher Tilghman's collection, In a Father's Place, which was about to be published. It first appears in The Virginia Quarterly Review. This chapbook is also the first book of stories published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux. Dear Friends announcement insert signed by Jonathan Galassi, Editor in chief. The text of this chapbook is in Linotype Bodoni Book, with Bulmer type for display. The composition and letterpress printing were done by Heritage Printers, Inc., Charlotte, North Carolina. The paper is Beckett Text Laid, made by The Beckett Paper Company, Hamilton, Ohio. Christopher Tilghman is an American novelist and short story writer. He graduated from Yale University. He served three years in the Navy. He was a corporate copywriter and journalist. He edited Ploughshares. He teaches at University of Virginia and the Napa Writers' Conference. His awards include: 1990 Whiting Award, 1993-1994 Guggenheim Fellowship, and Ingram Merrill Foundation Award. On the Rivershore is the first story from In a Father's Place, which is a collection of short stories by Christopher Tilghman that are set against the enroached-upon yet still-expansive landscapes of our continent. From a Montanan widow who marries her ranch hand to the aging patriarch of an old Maryland family on the Eastern Shore, Tilghman's characters bring to life the trials and bonds of belonging to one another-as lovers, as friends, as fathers. This collection of stories, the author's first book, is a deeply American work-composed with a keen sense of our past and our predicaments-but also a celebration of our resiliency. Writing in The New York Times Book Review, John Casey called In a Father's Place "a wonderful surprise . . . a beautiful book, making emotions as vivid and rich in perspective as a loved landscape."