{"description": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "\"From an American master comes another \"beautifully languid, emotionally intense tale\" (Entertainment Weekly), this time of a newspaper editor's fateful decision to expose a small-town fugitive. 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: William Grant, the town haberdasher, married to the bank president's daughter and 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, as he moves first to Chicago, where he engages in a spirited love affair that cannot, in the end, compete with the pull of the newsroom--\"never lonely, especially when it was empty\"--and the \"subtle beauty\" of the front page. Finally, as the editor of a major newspaper in post-Kennedy-era Washington, DC, Ned has reason to return to the question of privacy and its many violations--the gorgeously limned themes running through Ward Just's elegiac and masterly new novel\"--"}, "subjects": ["Life change events", "Newspaper editors", "Fiction", "Fiction, political", "Journalists, fiction", "Fiction, historical", "New York Times reviewed", "General", "Political"], "key": "/works/OL20043088W", "title": "The Eastern Shore", "authors": [{"type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}, "author": {"key": "/authors/OL34468A"}}], "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "links": [{"url": "http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/13/books/review/ward-just-eastern-shore.html", "title": "New York Times review", "type": {"key": "/type/link"}}], "genres": ["/tags/OL170T"], "latest_revision": 6, "revision": 6, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2019-07-19T18:44:59.260532"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2026-08-31T17:59:31.012754"}}