The Last Summer (of You and Me)

The Last Summer (of You and Me)

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NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. A description of our secondhand books is not always available. Please contact us if you have a question about this title.
Author: Ann Brashares

Format: Paperback

Number of Pages: 320


Ann Brashares s series, The Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants, has made her one of the most successful contemporary authors, shipping more than 8 million copies over the last five years and winning even more millions of passionate fans. Now, like Judy Blume (Summer Sisters) before her, Brashares turns her spectacular gifts to adult readers. In The Last Summer (of You and Me), Brashares uses her remarkable storytelling, emotional insights, and talent for capturing relationships to weave a rich, textured, mature novel that will resonate as clearly with readers in their forties as in their twenties. Set on Long Island s Fire Island, The Last Summer (of You and Me) is an enchanting, heartrending page-turner about sisterhood, friendship, love, loss and growing up. It is the story of a beach-community friendship triangle?Riley and Alice, two sisters in their twenties, and Paul, the young man they ve grown up with?and what happens one summer when budding love, sexual curiosity, a sudden serious illness, and a deep secret all collide, launching the friends into an adult world from which their summer haven can no longer protect them.As wise, compelling, and endearing as her Travelling Pants series, and as lyrical, thoughtful, and moving as the best literary women s fiction, this novel is sure to win an entire new generation of adult fans.



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NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. A description of our secondhand books is not always available. Please contact us if you have a question about this title.
Author: Ann Brashares

Format: Paperback

Number of Pages: 320


Ann Brashares s series, The Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants, has made her one of the most successful contemporary authors, shipping more than 8 million copies over the last five years and winning even more millions of passionate fans. Now, like Judy Blume (Summer Sisters) before her, Brashares turns her spectacular gifts to adult readers. In The Last Summer (of You and Me), Brashares uses her remarkable storytelling, emotional insights, and talent for capturing relationships to weave a rich, textured, mature novel that will resonate as clearly with readers in their forties as in their twenties. Set on Long Island s Fire Island, The Last Summer (of You and Me) is an enchanting, heartrending page-turner about sisterhood, friendship, love, loss and growing up. It is the story of a beach-community friendship triangle?Riley and Alice, two sisters in their twenties, and Paul, the young man they ve grown up with?and what happens one summer when budding love, sexual curiosity, a sudden serious illness, and a deep secret all collide, launching the friends into an adult world from which their summer haven can no longer protect them.As wise, compelling, and endearing as her Travelling Pants series, and as lyrical, thoughtful, and moving as the best literary women s fiction, this novel is sure to win an entire new generation of adult fans.