| Contents |
Front Cover -- Front Flap -- Front Matter -- Half Title -- Other Books by this Author -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- 1. UNCLE RALPH -- 2. JOKE TOWN -- 3. ELAINE -- 4. THE HABERDASHER -- 5. MILO PASSAREL -- 6. THE GOLDEN TABLE -- 7. FERRIS WHEEL -- Back Flap -- Back Cover -- Spine. |
| Summary |
"From an American master comes another "beautifully languid, emotionally intense tale" (Entertainment Weekly), this time of a newspaper editor's fateful decision to expose a small-town fugitive. Ned Ayres, the son of a judge in an Indiana town in midcentury America, has never wanted anything but a newspaper career--in his father's appalled view, a "junk business," a way of avoiding responsibility. The defining moment comes early, when Ned is city editor of his hometown paper. One of his beat reporters fields a tip: William Grant, the town haberdasher, married to the bank president's daughter and father of two children, once served six years in Joliet. The story runs--Ned offers no resistance to his publisher's argument that the public has a right to know. The consequences, swift and shocking, haunt him throughout a long career, as he moves first to Chicago, where he engages in a spirited love affair that cannot, in the end, compete with the pull of the newsroom--"never lonely, especially when it was empty"--and the "subtle beauty" of the front page. Finally, as the editor of a major newspaper in post-Kennedy-era Washington, DC, Ned has reason to return to the question of privacy and its many violations--the gorgeously limned themes running through Ward Just's elegiac and masterly new novel"-- Provided by publisher. |
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Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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Format: Adobe EPUB eBook. |
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Format: Kindle Book. |
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Format: OverDrive Read. |
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Requires Adobe Digital Editions or Amazon Kindle. |
| Other edition |
Print version: Just, Ward S., author. Eastern Shore Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016 9780544836587 |
| Subject |
Newspaper editors -- Fiction.
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Life change events -- Fiction.
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| Genre |
Electronic books.
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| Other corporate author |
OverDrive, Inc.
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| ISBN |
9780544836617
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| STANDARD # |
2516962 OverDrive |
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