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The Last Summer
Ann Brashares

The Last Summer

(of You & Me)

Riverhead (Jun 06, 2007)
9781594489174
| Hardcover
307 pages | 147 x 211 mm | English
Dewey 813.6
LC Classification PS3602.R385 .L37 2007

Genre

  • Bildungsromans

Subject

  • Fiction / Coming Of Age
  • Fiction / Literary
  • Fiction / Romance / General
  • Friendship
  • Friendship/ Fiction

Plot

"Set against this vivid backdrop, The Last Summer (of You and Me) is the story of a beach-community friendship triangle among three young adults for whom summer and this place have meant everything. Sisters Riley and Alice, now in their twenties, have been returning to their parents' modest beach house every summer for their entire lives. Petite, tenacious Riley is a tomboy and a lifeguard, always ready for a midnight swim, a gale-force sail, or a barefoot sprint down the beach. Beautiful Alice is lithe, gentle, a reader and a thinker, and worshipful of her older sister. And every summer growing up, in the big house that overshadowed their humble one, there was Paul, a friend as important to both girls as the place itself, who has now finally returned to the island after three years away.