{"product_id":"right-hand-shore-paperback-1","title":"Right-Hand Shore - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eChristopher Tilghman\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Notable Book of the Year \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA masterful novel that confronts the dilemmas of race, family, and forbidden love in the wake of America's Civil War \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFifteen years after the publication of his acclaimed novel \u003ci\u003eMason's Retreat\u003c\/i\u003e, Christopher Tilghman returns to the Mason family and the Chesapeake Bay in \u003ci\u003eThe Right-Hand Shore\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIt is 1920, 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 the closest direct descendant of the original immigrant owner that she can find. Edward believes he can charm the old lady, secure the estate and be back in Baltimore by lunchtime. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eInstead, over the course of a long day, he hears the stories that will forever bind 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe 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. The result is a radiant work of deep insight and peerless imagination about the central dilemma of American history. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Right-Hand Shore\u003c\/i\u003e is a\u003ci\u003e New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Notable Book of 2012.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChristopher Tilghman\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of two short story collections, \u003ci\u003eIn a Father's Place\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Way People Run\u003c\/i\u003e, and two previous novels, \u003ci\u003eMason's Retreat\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eRoads of the Heart\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 368\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.96 x 8.23 x 5.56 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 30, 2013\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47240043856121,"sku":"9781250033284","price":25.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/WVRIWXp1cDk4YnN4QU1UTG14RVpJZz09_6128d084-501f-4eef-8149-874ebefb801f.webp?v=1768566088","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/right-hand-shore-paperback-1","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}