I Will Go Barefoot All Summer For You (SIGNED)
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Edition: 1st us ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Markings: Signed with inscription
Condition remarks: includes six photographs of the author's family - presumably.
Set against the languid heat of a Southern summer, I Will Go Barefoot All Summer for You is a tender and evocative coming-of-age story that chronicles a young girl's awakening to the complexities of love, identity, and the bittersweet passage from innocence to understanding. Katie Letcher Lyle captures with quiet precision the emotional landscape of adolescence — the longing, the confusion, and the fierce joy of feeling truly alive for the first time — set within the rich cultural tapestry of Appalachian Virginia. Lyle, a celebrated poet and novelist deeply rooted in the literary traditions of the American South, brings to her prose a lyrical sensitivity that transforms the ordinary moments of a teenage summer into something luminous and enduring. Her writing instructs the reader in the subtle art of paying attention — to landscape, to feeling, to the people who mark us irrevocably. This is a novel that lingers long after the final page, leaving the reader to wonder just how much of one summer can change a life forever.
Author: Katie Letcher Lyle
Format: Hardback
Published: 1973, J.B. Lippincott Company
Genre: Fiction
Edition: 1st us ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Markings: Signed with inscription
Condition remarks: includes six photographs of the author's family - presumably.
Set against the languid heat of a Southern summer, I Will Go Barefoot All Summer for You is a tender and evocative coming-of-age story that chronicles a young girl's awakening to the complexities of love, identity, and the bittersweet passage from innocence to understanding. Katie Letcher Lyle captures with quiet precision the emotional landscape of adolescence — the longing, the confusion, and the fierce joy of feeling truly alive for the first time — set within the rich cultural tapestry of Appalachian Virginia. Lyle, a celebrated poet and novelist deeply rooted in the literary traditions of the American South, brings to her prose a lyrical sensitivity that transforms the ordinary moments of a teenage summer into something luminous and enduring. Her writing instructs the reader in the subtle art of paying attention — to landscape, to feeling, to the people who mark us irrevocably. This is a novel that lingers long after the final page, leaving the reader to wonder just how much of one summer can change a life forever.