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Synopsis
SUMMER GONE is about those moments when everything stops. Like skilled canoeists, we briefly hold a perfect balance - poised between innocence and experience, life and death, discovery and loss, the promise of spring and the sadness of autumn - and we believe, foolishly, that those perfect days will last forever.
Set among the islands and lakes of cottage country, this major first novel from one of Canada's premier writers explores the stories of three generations of lost summers: the girl in the blue bathing suit; the impenetrable and doomed summer camp counsellor with the shifting features; the wife who comes alive to the rhythms of a cottage summer, wild blueberries and lake gossip, but 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.
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Review
Invokes summer with perfect pitch, grace and detail ... A homage to our most beautiful memories. Within this novel is the marvellous height of summer, perfect and fleeting, a place and time we can never get enough of (The Globe AND MAIL)
A compelling evocation ...a remarkable commeration of a family and its land (INDEPENDENT)
Quite indisputably lovely...uncommonly wise and moving (Washington Post)
Book Description
A haunting novel of love experienced and love remembered that is also a celebration and evocation of the brief beauty of the northern summer.
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- PublisherAbacus
- Publication date2000
- ISBN 10 0349110077
- ISBN 13 9780349110073
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages288
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