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Chargement... Windchill Summerpar Norris Church Mailer
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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. I think apart from one or two characters, everyone in this book was nice. Loads and loads of really nice characters getting along together. Even the nasty ones had a nice side. In such a book I would have expected little tension and few reasons to read to the end, but that’s not the case. After a slowish start, this really builds momentum, and became unputdownable. One of the most graphic accounts of the Vietnam War experience I have read, and a whodunit that would be hard to guess. It was like climbing down a worm-hole right back to the 1960s. A really great read. ( ) This was an amazing book. The story takes place in rural Arkansas in 1969 which is so fascinating in of itself. These characters are so real and off beat. It was a quirky story with a mystery and had such depth. This definitely goes down as my topp 3 favorite books of all time. I jhave been dying for NOrris Church Mailer to write another one and apparently she has! I can't ewait for the next one in August 07'. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
From Norman Mailer's wife, the powerful story of a group of girlfriends coming-of-age in small town, bible-belt America in 1969 and the horrific murder of one of their group that shatters their illusions of peace. It is the start of a long, hot summer. Cherry and Baby are working at the pickle plant - everyone in Sweet Valley does this sooner or later - saving for the final year of their art degrees. As the machines hum and pulse with heat, the only relief is the wind-chill factor, the occasional breeze that evaporates the skin's film of sweat and draws the heat off for a few seconds. Cherry is over six foot, thin as a reed with pale skin and wild blonde hair. She has been brought up in the Holiness Church, as innocent and naive as it is possible to be. Baby is beautiful and petite, an Oriental jewel, sassy and damaged - and Cherry's protector. But nobody can protect Cherry from real life this summer and it begins when Carlene is dragged murdered from the lake. And when the boys come home from Vietnam, in an indefinable way the war comes back too, seeping into everyone's lives as the awful truth begins to unravel about who killed Carlene and why. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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