The Summer of Naked Swim Parties: A Novel (P.S.) - Softcover

Blau, Jessica Anya

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0061452025 ISBN 13: 9780061452024

Publisher: Harper Perennial, 2008

Synopsis

Fourteen-year-old Jamie will never forget the summer of 1976. It's the summer when she has her first boyfriend, cute surfer Flip Jenkins; it's the summer when her two best friends get serious about sex, cigarettes, and tanning; it's the summer when her parents throw, yes, naked swim parties, leaving Jamie flushed with embarrassment. And it's the summer that forever changes the way Jamie sees the things that matter: family, friendship, love, and herself.

About this title

About the Author:

Jessica Anya Blau is the author of the nationally bestselling novel The Summer of Naked Swim Parties and the critically acclaimed Drinking Closer to Home.

Review:

“Sadly, not a photo essay, but rather a witty account of the agonies and ecstasies of a girl coming of age in late-seventies California.” (New York magazine)

“High and low comedy, nude swimming, and familial frenzy float through [THE SUMMER OF NAKED SWIM PARTIES] like pot smoke.” (Boston Globe)

“Reading this heartfelt and humorous coming-of-age story is the perfect way to spend a hot summer day.” (Cosmopolitan)

“A fantastic beach read about painful adolescence in the 1970s.” (Oklahoma City Oklahoman)

“Move over, summer of love. Here comes the summer of naked swim parties . . . [Blau] knows adolescence inside out . . . [S]he skewers what needs skewering and celebrates the rest with humor, style, and an appropriate degree of affection.” (Booklist)

“Jessica Anya Blau’s debut novel, THE SUMMER OF NAKED SWIM PARTIES, is a delight: a California beach girl’s hilariously painful adolescence in the High 1970s.” (John Barth)

“You may think you’ve heard this story before, but no one tells it as wittily, winningly, wisely and well as Jessica Anya Blau.” (Madison Smartt Bell)

“This book will make you laugh and cry in public. Jessica Anya Blau has written a soaring teenage lament, perfectly pitched, containing the single saddest and funniest line of seduction ever uttered.” (Larry Doyle, author of I Love You, Beth Cooper)

“Funny and charming, moving and sweet―Jessica Anya Blau beautifully captures the awkwardness and the wonder of coming of age. The Summer of Naked Swim Parties is a remarkable debut novel.” (Michael Kimball, author of Dear Everybody)

“Once you dive in to this sweet, sparkling coming of age story, dripping with heart and heartbreak, you won’t want to come up -- even for air.” (Hillary Carlip, author of Queen of the Oddballs: And Other True Stories from a Life Unaccording to Plan)

About this edition

• Publisher: Harper Perennial
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0061452025
• ISBN 13: 9780061452024
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320