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Fiction Coming Of Age

That Last Summer

by (author) Susan M. Toy

Publisher
Island Cat Editions
Initial publish date
Sep 2013
Category
Coming of Age
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9780987938589
    Publish Date
    Sep 2013
    List Price
    $5.99

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Susan M. Toy captures the magic of the summer of '65 in this tale of love and loss of innocence. The lake is alive with boys and girls, skiing and romancing. Rachel constantly spars with her younger sister, neither girl realizing the extent of life-changing problems that float below the surface for both a friend's family and their own. Toy writes with confidence and elegance in That Last Summer and, as Juliet says in a famous scene performed around an August bonfire, "Parting is such sweet sorrow ..."

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