The Right-Hand Shore
by Christopher Tilghman
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85%
Critic Reviews: 10
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Synopsis
A masterful novel that confronts the dilemmas of race, family, and forbidden love in the wake of America’s Civil WarFifteen years after the publication of his acclaimed novel Mason’s Retreat, Christopher Tilghman returns to the Mason family and the Chesapeake Bay in The Right-Hand Shore.It 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... more
About Christopher Tilghman
- All Critics: 10
- Positive: 9
- Negative: 1
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The New York Times | 27 Apr 2012
“The Right-Hand Shore” is the dark, magisterial creation of a writer with an uncanny feel for the intersections of place and character in American history.
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Boston.com | 3 Jun 2012
In its best moments, “The Right-Hand Shore” makes this wisdom felt, and it is all too easy to imagine living in such a compromised world.
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Publishers Weekly | 12 Mar 2012
The tale’s descent into tragedy is nevertheless beautiful...
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Kirkus Reviews | 1 May 2012
Tilghman’s trademark nuanced observation and insight are abundantly apparent, but there’s no real center to this insistently portentous parable of multiple blight.
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The Chestertown Spy | 3 May 2012
This novel has the sweep and depth of one of the great engrossing 19th century novels – Dickens, Eliot, even Tolstoy.
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Newsvine.com | 30 Apr 2012
There's never a false note, either, only poignant and surprising ones that linger long after the last page.
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Financial Times | 5 May 2012
...this is a hugely enjoyable saga, elegantly told.
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Frogen Yozurt | 28 Apr 2012
The result is a radiant work of deep insight and peerless imagination about the central dilemma of American history.
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NPR | 22 May 2012
He so fully inhabits the marshy souls of his characters, there's never any of those awkward moments...Tilghman remains "the real deal."
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The New York Times | 27 Apr 2012
Tilghman unfolds his harsh lesson with precision, delicacy and startling humor.
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