| Midsummer Contributor(s): Clements, Marcelle (Author) |
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ISBN: 0156029650 ISBN-13: 9780156029650 Publisher: Mariner Books OUR PRICE: $17.05 Product Type: Paperback Published: May 2004 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Friendship - Fiction | Romance - Holiday - Fiction | Women |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2002153525 |
| Physical Information: 0.77" H x 5.58" W x 8.31" (0.85 lbs) 291 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: A splendid Hudson River estate, complete with cook and rose garden. The landscape is inebriating, the women are in full, passionate bloom, and the men are incomprehensible. Susie-chic, smart, spacey, and no longer promiscuous- decides, at forty-five, to do what she would have done at twenty-five: invite a group of amusing friends to spend eight weekends of summer in stunning surroundings. The invitees include her oldest friend, Kay, elegantly nursing a broken heart; her former lover Dodge-still the sexiest man she knows; his randy, neurotic, comedian friend Ron; and Elise, an on-the-cusp artist determined to be in a relationship before she hits forty. Add to the mix Susie's very ardent, very surprising twenty-four-year-old son, and an exhibitionist au pair next door, and you have a delicious romantic farce that deftly slides into and out of something quite a bit darker. |
Contributor Bio(s): Clements, Marcelle: - Marcelle Clements is the author of Rock Me, a novel, and The Dog Is Us, essays. Her award-winning essays and articles have appeared in numerous publications, among them the New York Times, Rolling Stone, Elle, and Esquire. She lives in New York City. |