The Eastern Shore / Ward Just.

Author/creator Just, Ward S. author.
Format Book
PublicationBoston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016.
Description200 pages ; 24 cm
Subjects
Newspaper editors--Fiction.
Life change events--Fiction.

Abstract "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.
Issued in other formOnline version: Just, Ward S., author. Eastern Shore Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016 9780544836617
Genre/formFiction.
Genre/formPolitical fiction.
LCCN 2016002947
ISBN9780544836587 (hardcover)
ISBN0544836588 (hardcover)

Availability

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Joyner General Stacks PS3560 .U75 E23 2016 ✔ Available Place Hold