The Eastern Shore
A Fiction, Literary Fiction book. With each book, Ward Just keeps getting better all the time....
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:...
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- Filetype: PDF
- Pages: 200 pages
- ISBN: 9780544836587 / 544836588
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Love It or Hate It; Actually, Love It and Hate ItAll of the Ward Just books I've encountered seem to be variations on "The Great Gatsby", just without Gatsby. Instead, we get to read the reflections of, and experience the world weary false-humble superiority of, an uber-midwestern version of narrator Nick Carraway.This one is mostly... With each book, Ward Just keeps getting better all the time. If this is how he's spending his retirement, it's time well spent. His protagonist, Ned Ayres, in his retirement is attempting his memoir, trying to make a book out of a life lived married as it were to his work as a news editor. From his earliest years in a small Indiana... The Eastern Shore, in Ward Just's book of that name, is the Eastern Shore of Maryland. This is where Just's protagonist, Ned Ayers, has retired after a lifetime career as a newspaper editor. Born the only child of affluent parents in the tiny town of Herman, Indiana - just down the road from Muncie - Ayers has made his way to Washington...
