The Eastern Shore
Just, Ward A master American novelist." -Vanity Fair
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 pu...