The Eastern Shore - Couverture rigide

Just, Ward

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ISBN 10 : 0544836588 ISBN 13 : 9780544836587

Editeur : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

Revue de presse

"In Just’s hands, the ambiguous motives behind the paper’s pursuit of the story are riveting...the novel stands on Just’s memorable study of Ned. Your heart goes out to this kindly, complex man who’s 'not truly interested in the things of his own life, preferring the lives of others.'"--The Seattle Times "It’s a pleasure to report that at age 81, Ward Just is still turning out penetrating studies of mature adults wrestling with life’s profound challenges, often in the public arena...Just’s finely calibrated appreciation of the flaws of human character and his talent for gazing without blinking into the darkest corners of the human heart continue to distinguish him as a writer of keen intellect and insight."--Bookpage “The Eastern Shore is a doggedly restrained character study that advances its themes obliquely through atmosphere and tone. Often, the effect is quietly, even elegiacally beautiful, evoking the rhythms of Ernest Hemingway’s early fiction...a quietly affecting, mournful achievement."--The Richmond Times-Dispatch "Reflective and intelligent...himself a respected journalist, Just skillfully examines a number of existential questions, including how we come to understand the choices we make and how well we actually know ourselves...a pensive, quietly affecting novel. Recommended for literary fiction fans."--Library Journal "Clever."--Publishers Weekly

Praise for American Romantic: "If Ward Just were a painter, he might be a figurative artist like Stone Roberts, whose Old Masterly polish gives his contemporary images a spooky resonance. "American Romantic," Mr. Just's 18th novel over four decades, is an excursion into the near past—this time, the early days of the war in Vietnam—that leads to wise and elegiac recognition of the fading of American confidence and competence in ordering an unruly world."—Wall Street Journal Praise for Rodin's Debutante: "Many coming-of-age novels share a problem...Ward Just’s 17th novel, Rodin’s Debutante, neatly avoids this problem while chucking aside almost every convention and cliché associated with the genre...Rodin’s Debutante is an achievement. Into a couple of hundred fast-moving pages, it compacts an impressive array of characters, settings, ideas and scenes, including a superb account of the aftermath of a winning football season that fuses the romanticism of the early Kerouac and his mentor, Thomas Wolfe, with the wry humor of Richard Yates." --New York Times Book Review Praise for Exiles in the Garden: "Master novelist Just continues his commanding inquiry into the complexities of inheritance, politics, bloodshed, art, fame, and fate, taking measure of the everlasting wounds of war and moral compromise. A virtuoso writer of graceful wit and offhanded gravitas, Just tells this elegant yet harrowing tale of the entanglement of the personal and the geopolitical in sentences infused with the tensile strength of suspension bridges spanning earthly fire and the dark tides of the psyche."-- Booklist Praise for An Unfinished Season: Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize, Pulitzer Prize Finalist "(Editor's Choice) Ward Just continues to expand his storytelling . . . with this beautifully languid, emotionally intense tale . . . But it is the intricate contrasts between the fathers and their children, young adults who exult and err in love, that give Season a melancholy lushness tempered by a fierce, unforgiving realism." -- Ken Tucker, Entertainment Weekly, July 16, 2004 

"Reflective and intelligent...himself a respected journalist, Just skillfully examines a number of existential questions, including how we come to understand the choices we make and how well we actually know ourselves...a pensive, quietly affecting novel. Recommended for literary fiction fans."--Library Journal "Clever."--Publishers Weekly

"Clever."--Publishers Weekly

"The truth lies behind the dialogue...wtih the genuine pleasure of Just's sure hand."--New York Times Book Review "In Just’s hands, the ambiguous motives behind the paper’s pursuit of the story are riveting...the novel stands on Just’s memorable study of Ned. Your heart goes out to this kindly, complex man who’s 'not truly interested in the things of his own life, preferring the lives of others.'"--The Seattle Times "It’s a pleasure to report that at age 81, Ward Just is still turning out penetrating studies of mature adults wrestling with life’s profound challenges, often in the public arena...Just’s finely calibrated appreciation of the flaws of human character and his talent for gazing without blinking into the darkest corners of the human heart continue to distinguish him as a writer of keen intellect and insight."--Bookpage “The Eastern Shore is a doggedly restrained character study that advances its themes obliquely through atmosphere and tone. Often, the effect is quietly, even elegiacally beautiful, evoking the rhythms of Ernest Hemingway’s early fiction...a quietly affecting, mournful achievement."--The Richmond Times-Dispatch "Reflective and intelligent...himself a respected journalist, Just skillfully examines a number of existential questions, including how we come to understand the choices we make and how well we actually know ourselves...a pensive, quietly affecting novel. Recommended for literary fiction fans."--Library Journal "Clever."--Publishers Weekly

Praise for American Romantic: "If Ward Just were a painter, he might be a figurative artist like Stone Roberts, whose Old Masterly polish gives his contemporary images a spooky resonance. "American Romantic," Mr. Just's 18th novel over four decades, is an excursion into the near past—this time, the early days of the war in Vietnam—that leads to wise and elegiac recognition of the fading of American confidence and competence in ordering an unruly world."—Wall Street Journal Praise for Rodin's Debutante: "Many coming-of-age novels share a problem...Ward Just’s 17th novel, Rodin’s Debutante, neatly avoids this problem while chucking aside almost every convention and cliché associated with the genre...Rodin’s Debutante is an achievement. Into a couple of hundred fast-moving pages, it compacts an impressive array of characters, settings, ideas and scenes, including a superb account of the aftermath of a winning football season that fuses the romanticism of the early Kerouac and his mentor, Thomas Wolfe, with the wry humor of Richard Yates." --New York Times Book Review Praise for Exiles in the Garden: "Master novelist Just continues his commanding inquiry into the complexities of inheritance, politics, bloodshed, art, fame, and fate, taking measure of the everlasting wounds of war and moral compromise. A virtuoso writer of graceful wit and offhanded gravitas, Just tells this elegant yet harrowing tale of the entanglement of the personal and the geopolitical in sentences infused with the tensile strength of suspension bridges spanning earthly fire and the dark tides of the psyche."-- Booklist 

"I found myself often — at that villa in Spain, or with Ned and Milo sipping Rioja at Milo’s wood-paneled club in DC — captivated by the beautiful language, the sense of place so well described, and feeling at home — at ease in Just’s good hands, a sense of belonging there that made the novel a pleasure to read."--Washington Independent Review of Books "The truth lies behind the dialogue...wtih the genuine pleasure of Just's sure hand."--New York Times Book Review "In Just’s hands, the ambiguous motives behind the paper’s pursuit of the story are riveting...the novel stands on Just’s memorable study of Ned. Your heart goes out to this kindly, complex man who’s 'not truly interested in the things of his own life, preferring the lives of others.'"--The Seattle Times "It’s a pleasure to report that at age 81, Ward Just is still turning out penetrating studies of mature adults wrestling with life’s profound challenges, often in the public arena...Just’s finely calibrated appreciation of the flaws of human character and his talent for gazing without blinking into the darkest corners of the human heart continue to distinguish him as a writer of keen intellect and insight."--Bookpage   “The Eastern Shore is a doggedly restrained character study that advances its themes obliquely through atmosphere and tone. Often, the effect is quietly, even elegiacally beautiful, evoking the rhythms of Ernest Hemingway’s early fiction...a quietly affecting, mournful achievement."--The Richmond Times-Dispatch "Reflective and intelligent...himself a respected journalist, Just skillfully examines a number of existential questions, including how we come to understand the choices we make and how well we actually know ourselves...a pensive, quietly affecting novel. Recommended for literary fiction fans."--Library Journal "Clever."--Publishers Weekly

"It’s a pleasure to report that at age 81, Ward Just is still turning out penetrating studies of mature adults wrestling with life’s profound challenges, often in the public arena...Just’s finely calibrated appreciation of the flaws of human character and his talent for gazing without blinking into the darkest corners of the human heart continue to distinguish him as a writer of keen intellect and insight."--Bookpage “The Eastern Shore is a doggedly restrained character study that advances its themes obliquely through atmosphere and tone. Often, the effect is quietly, even elegiacally beautiful, evoking the rhythms of Ernest Hemingway’s early fiction...a quietly affecting, mournful achievement."--The Richmond Times-Dispatch "Reflective and intelligent...himself a respected journalist, Just skillfully examines a number of existential questions, including how we come to understand the choices we make and how well we actually know ourselves...a pensive, quietly affecting novel. Recommended for literary fiction fans."--Library Journal "Clever."--Publishers Weekly

Présentation de l'éditeur

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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0544836588
• ISBN 13: 9780544836587
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 208
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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