Mason's Retreat

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Chatto & Windus, 1996 - Fiction - 290 pages
The year is 1936 and Edward Mason and his family decide to take on a delapidated country estate called Mason's Retreat in Maryland, inherited from a distant aunt. They set out to transform it and their dwindling fortune, but tragedy lies in waiting.

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Section 1
3
Section 2
28
Section 3
52
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About the author (1996)

Writer Christopher Tilghman was born in Boston in 1946 and later graduated from Yale University. After Tilghman served in the Navy, he took on construction work until he was able to establish himself as a writer. Tilghman's short stories appeared in The New Yorker magazine and in Best American Short Stories. He also published In a Father's Place, a collection of short stories, and Mason's Retreat, his first novel.

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