- New York Times reviewed, Fiction, general, Fathers and sons, fiction, Fathers and sons
"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.
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Grave, earnest, classical in form and spare.
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- sparerichly built
- warmbleak
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- Author
- David Macfarlane
- First published
- 1999
- Pages
- 266
- Publisher
- Vintage Canada, Random House of Canada Ltd, Crown Publishers
- Editions
- 6
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780349110073
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