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Chargement... UN ETE 42. (1971)par Herman Raucher
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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. 8421741187 "In the summer of '42 they raided the Coast Guard station four times. They saw five movies and had nine days of rain. Benjie broke his watch, Oscy gave up the harmonica, and in a very special way, Hermie was lost forever." This was the summer when 15-year-old Hermie also lost his childhood. In this semi-autobiographical novel, the adult Herman reminisces about a particular summer that his family rented a house on Packett Island. His friends were Oscy, the one-month older self-proclaimed expert sexual relationships between men and women; and Benjie, the younger and gawkier member of the trio. Hermie is an introspective romantic frequently lost in a daydream. He is the stereotypical testosterone-driven adolescent male who frequently imagines the opposite sex through his x-ray eyes. A recent target of his affection is the older by five or six years young married woman who has moved into one of the seaside cottages. Having watched the movie when I was not much older than Hermie, I decided to read the book. The movie was fairly close to the book; however, with the film you are not a witness to Hermie's daydream musings. The friends' antics frequently had me laughing aloud but were mellowed with the poignant ending. If you were ever an adolescent boy, you will connect with Hermie and his friends and if you were an adolescent girl, you will understand better what was truly on their mind. This book was written after the screenplay for the film had been sold but before the film was released. It tells a fuller story than the film, which is an autobiographical memoir of the author of a moment in his life. The tagline for the book and film is that "In everyone's life there is a Summer of '42." Is there? I don't know. I suppose most of us experience an event we can identify as a loss of innocence. But I don't think most of us have a summer of '42 like this one. I think this is my third read of the novel, but the first two times were in the early 70's. That's a long time ago. I still love the book, but part of that is nostalgia. Herman Raucher wrote this as a tribute to his friend Oscar, "Oscy", who died as a medic in Korea on the author's birthday in 1952. He has said that he never celebrated his birthday again. The film and book are irrevocably intertwined in my mind. I can't read the story without picturing the film in my mind. The story is about 3 boys in the Summer of '42 on an Atlantic coast island. Hermie Oscar and Benjie. The narrator of the story is Hermie and we are inside his head through the entire story. Oscy is the other main character and Benjie, the youngest of the group is part of things but mostly sidelined. And of course it is about Hermie and Dorothy. Dorothy is a young woman who Hermie develops an enormous overwhelming crush on. Hermie is about 14 going on 15 and we don't know Dorothy's age but she is perhaps 20 or a bit older. Hermie never saw Dorothy again after the events in the book. Reading this now is a little awkward because Hermie is hugely awkward. He's a full generation plus younger then me and of a different simpler time. But not simpler in emotions. A modern reader may be a bit bothered by the things that go on in Hermie's head, but there are quite a few funny moments. Robert Mulligan directed the film. He was perhaps most famous for making the film "To Kill a Mockingbird". He is also the narrator of the film, a voice that remained in my mind as I read the novel. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
Appartient à la série éditorialeGallimard, Folio (6157) Fait l'objet d'une adaptation dansDistinctions
"A chronicle of one summer in a boy's coming of age"--the international bestselling classic that became the basis for the Oscar-winning film (Medium). Captivating and evocative, Herman Raucher's semi-autobiographical tale has been made into a record-breaking Academy Award-winning hit movie, adapted for the stage, and enchanted readers for generations. In the summer of 1942, Hermie is fifteen. He is wildly obsessed with sex, and passionately in love with an "older woman" of twenty-two, whose husband is overseas and at war. Ambling through Nantucket Island with his friends, Hermie's indelible narration chronicles his frantic efforts to become a man, especially one worthy of the lovely Dorothy, as well as his glorious and heartbreaking initiation into sex. "Mr. Raucher scores most tellingly. His recall of nervous teen-age gaucheries is dead accurate, hilarious, tinged with sadness."--The New York Times Book Review "A charming and tender novel . . . The overall effect is one of high hilarity. Raucher is a comic-artist who is able to convey the fears and joys . . . of the boy and at the same time give older readers a wrench in the heart. "--Publishers Weekly Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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