The Resource The right-hand shore, by Christopher Tilghman, (text large print)
The right-hand shore, by Christopher Tilghman, (text large print)
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- Summary
- 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 their Chesapeake Bay estate in The Right-Hand Shore. It is 1922, 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 Edward, the closest direct descendant of the original immigrant that Miss Mary 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 tie 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
- Language
- eng
- Label
- The right-hand shore
- Title
- The right-hand shore
- Statement of responsibility
- by Christopher Tilghman
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- 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 their Chesapeake Bay estate in The Right-Hand Shore. It is 1922, 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 Edward, the closest direct descendant of the original immigrant that Miss Mary 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 tie 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
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Tilghman, Christopher
- Dewey number
- 813/.54
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- PS3570.I348
- LC item number
- R54 2012b
- Literary form
- fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
- Eastern Shore (Md. and Va.)
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- The right-hand shore, by Christopher Tilghman, (text large print)
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Dimensions
- 23 cm
- Extent
- 663 pages
- Form of item
- large print
- Isbn
- 9781410452443
- Isbn Type
- (hardcover)
- Lccn
- 2012026794
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Specific material designation
- large print
- System control number
-
- 798133771
- (OCoLC)798133771
- Label
- The right-hand shore, by Christopher Tilghman, (text large print)
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Dimensions
- 23 cm
- Extent
- 663 pages
- Form of item
- large print
- Isbn
- 9781410452443
- Isbn Type
- (hardcover)
- Lccn
- 2012026794
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Specific material designation
- large print
- System control number
-
- 798133771
- (OCoLC)798133771
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