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Sure, you could whip through an easy, escapist read on the beach this summer. But why not shield your face with these "summer" books by impressive authors as you soak up the rays? Of course, whether they serve merely as props or are savored page by page, is entirely up to you.
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Truman Capote
Thought to be lost for over 50 years, here is the first novel by one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century, displaying the early promise he would come to deliver in Other Voices, Other Rooms and Breakfast at Tiffany's. Set in New York during the summer of 1945, Summer Crossing is the story of a young carefree socialite, Grady, who must make serious decisions about the romance she is dangerously pursuing and the effect it will have on everyone involved.
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Frank Deford
Set in the nostalgic year of 1955, this touching novel reveals a unique kind of love between kindred spirits: 14-year-old Christy Banister, a sweet, slightly naïve young boy in need of guidance, and Kathryn, a quadriplegic after a battle with polio that nearly cost her life when she was 17. However, despite Kathryn’s physical limitations, she and Christy develop a strong and intimate friendship. Their summer ends with the ultimate victory of lives lived and loved.
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Edith Wharton
Considered by some to be Edith Wharton's finest work, Summer created a sensation when first published in 1917, as it was one of the first novels to deal honestly with a young woman's sexual awakening. Proud and independent Charity Royall, a child of mountain moonshiners adopted by a family in a poor New England town, has a passionate love affair with Lucius Harney, an educated young man from the city. Wharton broke the conventions of woman's romantic fiction with the thoroughly contemporary Charity.
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P.D. Wodehouse
P. G. Wodehouse was born in Surrey, educated in London, and spent much of his life in Southampton, Long Island, becoming an American citizen in 1955. In a literary career spanning more than seventy years, he published more than ninety books, twenty film scripts, and collaborated on more than thirty plays and musical comedies. Summer Moonshine involves Sir Buckstone Abbott trying to sell what is probably the ugliest home in England, as well as a complicated love quadrangle.
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E.M. Forster
Embarking on a tour of Italy with his wife and mother-in-law, Martin Whitby slips and falls under a train. Owing his rescue to the quick thinking of a young soldier, he feels obliged to thank the youth, and so pursues the acquaintance. The two men differ sharply in outlook and opinion, however, and part rudely. But once back in England, Martin finds himself called upon by the soldier with an urgent request for help.
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Ernest Hemingway
The Dangerous Summer is Hemingway's firsthand chronicle of a brutal season of bullfights. In this vivid account, he captures the exhausting pace and pressure of the season, the camaraderie and pride of the matadors, and the mortal drama as in fight after fight the rival matadors try to outdo each other with ever more daring performances. At the same time Hemingway offers an often complex and deeply personal self-portrait that reveals much about himself.
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H.E. Bates
This is a tragic story of betrayal - first the innocence of a small boy left in the charge of a girl not quite seventeen during his parent's holiday; secondly of the innocence of the girl herself, who is betrayed by a lover, who callously, also betrays the boy. The boy invents two imaginary characters for condolence and companionship, and these become in time more real than his parents.
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Aldous Huxley
A Hollywood millionaire with a terror of death, whose personal physician happens to be working on a theory of longevity--these are the elements of Huxley's caustic and entertaining satire on man's desire to live indefinitely.
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Boris Pasternak
From the author of Doctor Zhivago comes this story set in Russia during the winter of 1916. After a long journey, Serezha half-remembers, half-dreams the incidents of the last summer of peace before the First World War. As a tutor in a wealthy, unsettled Moscow household he focuses his intense romanticism on Mrs. Arild, his employer's paid companion, while spending his nights with the prostitute Sashka.
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Madeleine L'Engle
This journal offers a loving and poignant portrait of L'Engle's mother in old age that is more about living than dying. Madeline L'Engle, the popular author of many books for children and adults, has interspersed her writing and teaching career with raising three children, maintaining an apartment in New York and a farmhouse of charming confusion which is called "Crosswicks."
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