Nicholson at Large

Just, Ward

Ballantine Books

A Family Trust

Jonathan Yardley called A Family Trust "his longest, his most ambitious and his best… a book with serious purposes that manages to entertain at the same time…rich in carefully observed details, in quick, sharp perceptions that reveal more than one at first understands…a fine, satisfying, rewarding book, the work of a mature and accomplished novelist," upon the book's initial publication in 1978. The passing of Amos Rising, town elder and editor of The Dement Intelligencer, leaves the Rising family without a patriarch and the town with a hole in its center. The ambitions and talents of the Risings, the changing face of the town and the life of the spirited, intelligent, and attractive Dana Rising fill the pages of this extraordinary novel. Ward Just's A Family Trust is about the public face and private souls of America's Heartland in the same way his other novels are about Germany, Vietnam, or Washington D.C. The time has come to bring A Family Trust back into print.

Literature & Fiction

Literary

"Not many people can write splendid fiction about the inner workings of the American political state. In fact, Ward Just is the only one I can think of." ―Boston Globe
In this novel of political intrigue, Pulitzer Prize finalist Ward Just captures the best and brightest of Washington amid turmoil of the sixties and its repercussions twenty years later. In the City of Fear follows the intersecting lives of a good congressman, his good wife, and the good wife's lover, an infantry colonel whose memories of the war, and a secret plot concocted by the Washington power brokers to win it, are more than he can bear.

In the City of Fear: A Novel (Norton Paperback Fiction)

Genre Fiction

W.W.Norton&Company

"...compelling portrait of today's Army combines a keen analytic sense with the understanding of a journalist who has reported wars in Cyprus and Vietnam..."

Military men

Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.

Pursuing the free and untrammeled life of an artist in Paris, young Georgia Whyte, an aspiring painter, leaves her stodgy American Midwest home to find love and an inner rebirth in the Old World

AMBITION AND LOVE

United States

Houghton/Mifflin

A young pollster named Jack Gance becomes a savvy Washington political insider and eventually a U.S. senator - but not without paying the usual dues, which turns out to be a dirty business. Gance wastes his love on married women, but ultimately learns who his true mistress is: "I had arrived an apprentice from Chicago, but Washington had taken care of that. It was a great city. . . . It gave and gave and gave and gave and expected nothing in return but loyalty."

Jack Gance

Mariner Books

This masterly volume comprises the best shorter fiction written by Just over the last 25 years. "The working life, the war, politics, love affairs, and marriage seem to be the waters in which my boats set sail," Just writes. Here is a generous selection of the work that has earned Just his reputation as "one of the most astute writers of American fiction."

The Congressman Who Loved Flaubert: 21 Stories and Novellas

A FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD “Will be read in a century’s time be anyone seeking to understand how we lived.”—Detroit Free Press “A master American novelist.” —Vanity Fair An epic chronicle of three generations of Washington power brokers and the women who loved them (except when they didn't), Echo House is Ward Just's masterpiece. The Washington Post described it as "a fascinating if ultimately painful fairy tale, complete with a family curse. The decline of the Behls represents the decline of Washington from the bright dawn of the American century into the gathering shadows of an alien new millennium."

Echo House

Sydney Van Damm loves living among foreigners: having escaped Germany and his boyhood memories of World War II, he makes a life as a translator in Paris. There he meets Angela, an American expatriate who becomes his wife. Their marriage is brushed by tragedy, and in the turbulent seventies and eighties, as the new Europe is born, Sydney gets involved in an East German scam that comes crashing down around him.

The Translator

Title: American Romantic Binding: Hardcover Author: WardS.Just Publisher: HoughtonMifflin

American Romantic

Houghton, mifflin, harcourt

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