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Summer goneDavid Macfarlane
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Summer gone

266 pagesFirst published 19994 editions
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"This novel explores the stories of three generations of lost summers: the girl in the blue bathing suit; the impenetrable and doomed camp counselor with the shifting features; the wife who comes alive to the rhythms of a cottage summer, wild blueberries, and lake gossip, though who 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…

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4 in Spinefolk
FormatPublisherYearPagesISBN
EditionVintage Canada20002669780676972801
EditionAbacus20002669780349110073
EditionCrown Publishers19992669780517702628
EditionAlfred A. Knopf Canada19992669780676971903
New York Times reviewedFiction, generalFathers and sons, fictionFathers and sonsFiction