The Eastern Shore: A Novel

By: Ward Just

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Synopsis: A novel about journalism and one man&’s moral choices, &“evoking the rhythms of Ernest Hemingway&’s early fiction . . . A quietly affecting, mournful achievement&” (Richmond Times-Dispatch). Ned Ayres has never wanted anything but a newspaper career. His 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 the 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—until eventually, as the editor of a major newspaper in post-Kennedy Washington, DC, Ned has reason to return to the question of privacy and its many violations.