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Summer Gone

David Macfarlane's Summer Goneintroduces a writer of incandescent literary skill and beautifully evokes the sometimes painful relationship between father and son.

When Bay Newby is twelve he is sent north for the first time, and he falls in love with the life of ritual, beauty, and stark privilege of summer camp. Then the death of his baby sister calls him home, and it will be twenty-three years before his next "perfect summer." The summer he spends with his young son will contain loss also, but also discovery and redemption.Summer Goneis a novel of layered experience, of life, death and love as seen through the eyes of a young boy as he grows into a wiser-and more haunted-man.

Genre
literary fiction
Setting
1990scanada
Audience
adult
Length
medium · 288 pages

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