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Summer gone

David Macfarlane

1999266 pagesabout 4–6 hours
1999
first published
  • 1999Crown Publishers · 266 pages · ENGISBN 9780517702628
  • 2000Abacus · 266 pages · ENGISBN 9780349110073
  • 1999Random House of Canada Ltd · 288 pagesISBN 9780676971903
  • 2000Vintage Canada · 288 pagesISBN 9780676972801

"This novel explores the stories of three generations of lost summers: the girl in the blue bathing suit; the impenetrable and doomed camp counselor with the shifting features; the wife who comes alive to the rhythms of a cottage summer, wild blueberries, and lake gossip, though who remains blind to the secret that will change her life irrevocably. But the beating heart of this novel lies in the story of a divorced father and a young son separated by the silence of estrangement, and how during one extraordinary night on an ill-fated canoe trip the silence is broken. As the story unfolds and the mystery unravels, tragedy looms over father and son in ways they could never have imagined, and leads to the novel's gripping and startling conclusion."--BOOK JACKET.

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ThemesFamily
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