Summer Gone

Name: Summer Gone
Author: David Macfarlane
ISBN: 9780349110073

David Macfarlane

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Summer Gone

David Macfarlane

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#4691 of 8,085 books · #2233 in Fiction

Shortlisted for the Giller Prize (1999).

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 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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