Mason's Retreat

Informationen zum Autor Christopher Tilghman Klappentext MASON'S RETREAT is a powerful spellbindingly readable story about a family and a place. In 1936 Edward and Edith Mason return to America after a decade in England with their two sons Simon and Sebastien. Their destination is an old family estate on the coast of Maryland known as 'The Retreat'. They plan to revive it and restore their own diminished fortune. But events take a very different turn as the house the beautiful watery landscape and new and insidious pressures of class tension and sexual desire begin to exert a profound effect on the family and their world. Haunting compelling charged with subtle eroticism and a poignant sense of transience this is a magnificent novel. It propels Tilghman into the ranks of the great American writers. Zusammenfassung MASON'S RETREAT is a powerful, spellbindingly readable story about a family and a place. But events take a very different turn, as the house, the beautiful watery landscape, and new and insidious pressures of class tension and sexual desire begin to exert a profound effect on the family and their world.

Product details

• Authors: Christopher Tilghman, Tilghman Christopher
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 06.03.1997
• EAN: 9780099732716
• ISBN: 978-0-09-973271-6
• No. of pages: 304
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 18 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Maryland, FICTION / Family Life / General, Family life fiction, c 1930 to c 1939