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Chargement... Summer of '85par Richard Fellinger
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. Cette critique a été écrite dans le cadre des Critiques en avant-première de LibraryThing. Dan is a writer for a paper in Central Pennsylvania, and as a mass shooting story comes over the wire, he's shocked one of the victims was his summer love in college. While he begins research to find out what she did over the years, the story goes between the present and the summer of '85 in Wildwood.His past memories are waxing nostalgic and he finds out not everything he thought about his summer love was as innocent as he thought. When he learns facts in the present from others who were there that summer, he seems to lose more control. At the same time, his life is unraveling--his second wife demands a divorce, his father appears to have advancing dementia, and Dan feels stuck in his job. All of this seems to bring on more than a mid-life crisis: he has a mental breakdown of sorts. While the end, at first glance, seems to wrap up the story, it leaves a lot of questions about his mental state and a possible abduction across state lines. I found myself not liking Dan because he didn't seem to do anything to help his situation and his downward spiral didn't really seem to end with the final pages of the book. **Received a review copy from LibraryThing**
I received this as an Early Reviewer Digital pdf. Don't know if this is typical but there were a lot of typos in the text. I could figure it out from the context but hadn't expected that. If your a kid of the 80's who spent summers at the Jersey shore then you will enjoy this book. Dan is spending his summer off from college working the front desk at a motel in Wildwood for the summer. Sharing an apartment with two college friends, they do all the stuff you would expect. Although Dan doesn't know that he's about to meet Cara and his life won't be the same. Flash forward 15-20 years to a mass shooting. Dan is now the editorial writer for a large Harrisburg PA newspaper. As the tragedy comes over the wire and the newsroom is riveted Dan recognizes one of the names, Cara. The story goes between the two time lines with some twists I didn't expect. There are lots of references to great 80's music and all the fun places down the shore. Overall a great fun beach read.
The story of a mass shooting and an old summer loveWinner of the Seven Hills Review Novel Excerpt Contest.Summer of '85 is part coming-of-age story, part mid-life crisis story, and a timely tale for our era.In the summer of 1985 at the Jersey Shore, Cara Cassaday was Dan Fehr's first love. Since then, Dan has endured a series of mismatched relationships and unfulfilled dreams. Now his second marriage is in trouble and he's stuck writing for a mid-size newspaper in a small city. When he learns that Cara is among the victims of a gun massacre in a Philly hoagie shop, it triggers a chain of emotionally charged reactions as he confronts the realization of a lost love and a life lost-Cara was The One.This is an intimate look at the long arm of tragedy, unfulfilled promise, and the tensions of our times. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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If you're a kid of the 80's who spent summer at the Jersey shore then you will enjoy this book. Dan is spending his summer off from college working the front desk at a motel in Wildwood. Sharing an apartment with two college friends. They do all the stuff you would expect. Although Dan doesn't know that he's about to meet Cara and his life won't be the same.
Fast forward 15-20 years to a mass shooting. Dan is now the editorial writer for a large Harrisburg PA newspaper. As the tragedy comes over the wire and the newsroom is riveted, Dan recognizes one of the names, Cara.
The story goes between the two time lines with some twists and turns I didn't expect. There are lots of references to great 80's music and all the fun places down the shore. Overall a great fun beach read. ( )