New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1912) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Novel set on the Chesapeake Bay in 1920, but containing stories from an earlier time -of slavery, of attempts to turn the retreat into a peach orchard, of growing up in a fractured family. SIGNED on the title page. A New York Times Notable Novel, 355 pp. ISBN: 978-0374203481.