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A twelve-year-old girl keeps silent after witnessing a crime near her home on Cape Cod during the summer of 1972 as her parents struggle with running a campaign.
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Kelly's new novel is just as scathingly witty as her best-selling debut but better plotted and even more emotionally harrowing... Kelly skillfully builds almost unbearable tension, slipping in plenty of dark laughs en route to a wrenching climax that leaves in its wake some painfully unresolved questions--just like life. More fine work from a writer with a rare gift for blending wit and rue.
Kelly's raucous, deliciously creepy novel about the dysfunction of the uber wealthy begins in 1972 as the hoity-toity Camperdown clan prepare for another summer of horseback riding, fox hunting, and hors d'oeuvres in their cushy Cape Cod enclave... Kelly (Apologize, Apologize!) builds suspense by withholding the perpetrator's motivations and the characters' knowledge of who did it until the end.
Riveting... Riddle perfectly narrates the events of one crazy, harrowing summer against the tumultuous backdrop of the 1970s. Written with cutting wit and intensity; it doesn't get any better than this.
A wonderful novel is like an orchid: smooth, creamy, full of unexpected crevasses. The more you look at it, the more surprising it is. The Last Summer of the Camperdowns, by Canadian writer Elizabeth Kelly, is like that, giving us characters you ve never seen before, worlds we never knew, crimes we never thought of. Of course, some of us raise horses for the fun of it and run for Congress and may be bona fide movie stars, but not too many, and as purely escapist literature, The Last Summer works beautifully Really terrific fiction. --Carolyn See"
The Last Summer of the Camperdowns is both spooky and smart, with a fun-house-mirror cast of Cape Cod Irish aristocrats like no other. It's as if the Kennedys had catapulted themselves into a tale by Edgar Allen Poe with rollicking, harrowing, and above all highly entertaining results. --Holly LeCraw, author of The Swimming Pool"
There was no putting down this book. Elizabeth Kelly s riveting The Last Summer of the Camperdowns left me breathless. --Marcy Dermansky, author of Bad Marie"
The best-selling author of Apologize! Apologize! (2009) returns with another witty take on a dysfunctional family Kelly is a very entertaining writer with a digressive style and a way with metaphor readers will find much to like in this colorful story peopled with larger-than-life personalities. "
Kelly s raucous, deliciously creepy novel about the dysfunction of the uber wealthy begins in 1972 as the hoity-toity Camperdown clan prepare for another summer of horseback riding, fox hunting, and hors d oeuvres in their cushy Cape Cod enclave... Kelly (Apologize, Apologize!) builds suspense by withholding the perpetrator s motivations and the characters knowledge of who did it until the end. "
The Last Summer of the Camperdowns is one of the most delightful beach books evah! It is the literary equivalent of a dozen Wellfleet oysters salty, sweet, sublime. --Elin Hilderbrand, author of Beautiful Day"
Elizabeth Kelly's second novel continues to explore in her characteristically tight, witty prose the dysfunctional American family .The Last Summer of the Camperdowns is garnering a lot of comparisons to The Great Gatsby, with its love triangle, dangerous obsessions and undercurrent of violence. But Kelly's novel pushes the boundaries even more, bumping up against absurdity but remaining just credible enough to be, at times, seriously creepy. The Last Summer of the Camperdowns, with its vivid and notable Cape Cod setting, is a unique beach read, the kind that might keep you glancing over your shoulder to make sure no one is sneaking up behind your beach chair. "
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Kelly's raucous, deliciously creepy novel about the dysfunction of the uber wealthy begins in 1972 as the hoity-toity Camperdown clan prepare for another summer of horseback riding, fox hunting, and hors d'oeuvres in their cushy Cape Cod enclave... Kelly (Apologize, Apologize!) builds suspense by withholding the perpetrator's motivations and the characters' knowledge of who did it until the end.
Riveting... Riddle perfectly narrates the events of one crazy, harrowing summer against the tumultuous backdrop of the 1970s. Written with cutting wit and intensity; it doesn't get any better than this.
A wonderful novel is like an orchid: smooth, creamy, full of unexpected crevasses. The more you look at it, the more surprising it is. The Last Summer of the Camperdowns, by Canadian writer Elizabeth Kelly, is like that, giving us characters you ve never seen before, worlds we never knew, crimes we never thought of. Of course, some of us raise horses for the fun of it and run for Congress and may be bona fide movie stars, but not too many, and as purely escapist literature, The Last Summer works beautifully Really terrific fiction. --Carolyn See"
The Last Summer of the Camperdowns is both spooky and smart, with a fun-house-mirror cast of Cape Cod Irish aristocrats like no other. It's as if the Kennedys had catapulted themselves into a tale by Edgar Allen Poe with rollicking, harrowing, and above all highly entertaining results. --Holly LeCraw, author of The Swimming Pool"
There was no putting down this book. Elizabeth Kelly s riveting The Last Summer of the Camperdowns left me breathless. --Marcy Dermansky, author of Bad Marie"
The best-selling author of Apologize! Apologize! (2009) returns with another witty take on a dysfunctional family Kelly is a very entertaining writer with a digressive style and a way with metaphor readers will find much to like in this colorful story peopled with larger-than-life personalities. "
Kelly s raucous, deliciously creepy novel about the dysfunction of the uber wealthy begins in 1972 as the hoity-toity Camperdown clan prepare for another summer of horseback riding, fox hunting, and hors d oeuvres in their cushy Cape Cod enclave... Kelly (Apologize, Apologize!) builds suspense by withholding the perpetrator s motivations and the characters knowledge of who did it until the end. "
The Last Summer of the Camperdowns is one of the most delightful beach books evah! It is the literary equivalent of a dozen Wellfleet oysters salty, sweet, sublime. --Elin Hilderbrand, author of Beautiful Day"
Elizabeth Kelly's second novel continues to explore in her characteristically tight, witty prose the dysfunctional American family .The Last Summer of the Camperdowns is garnering a lot of comparisons to The Great Gatsby, with its love triangle, dangerous obsessions and undercurrent of violence. But Kelly's novel pushes the boundaries even more, bumping up against absurdity but remaining just credible enough to be, at times, seriously creepy. The Last Summer of the Camperdowns, with its vivid and notable Cape Cod setting, is a unique beach read, the kind that might keep you glancing over your shoulder to make sure no one is sneaking up behind your beach chair. "
Elizabeth Kelly is the best-selling author of The Last Summer of the Camperdowns (finalist for the New England Society Book Award) and Apologize, Apologize!. She lives in Merrickville, Ontario, with her husband, five dogs, and three cats.
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- PublisherThorndike Pr
- Publication date2013
- ISBN 10 1410462897
- ISBN 13 9781410462893
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages577
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