Early from the Dance: A Novel - Softcover

Payne, David

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9780452282803: Early from the Dance: A Novel

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ISBN 10: 0452282802 ISBN 13: 9780452282803

Publisher: Plume, 2003

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Cary and Adam are best friends from opposite sides of the Killdeer, N.C., tracks. Then Jane McCrae comes into their lives like a hurricane. When Cary falls in love with her, the boy's twosome becomes a tightly knit group of three, and they make plans for their summer after high school graduation. When Cary must remain in Killdeer, Adam and Jane head off to the Outer Banks alone, where they fall under the spell of the Lost Colony Hotel and its mysterious and charming proprietors. In a summer full of bright promise and heartache, Adam's feelings for Jane force him to make a difficult choice. . .

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About the Author:

David Payne is the critically acclaimed author of four novels. He attended Philips Exeter Academy and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His books have been translated into a half dozen languages and have been international bestsellers.

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e, thirty-one and a successful Manhattan artist, has been hiding from his past for too long. When a relative's death calls him home to North Carolina, he is pulled into an intense encounter with his own eighteen-year-old self and with the two most important people in his life -- Cary Kinlaw, his best boyhood friend, and Jane McCrae, the girl they both, disastrously, loved. And as he relives one incredible, heartbreaking summer from thirteen years before, he dares to recover what he changed his life to lose . . .

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