| Windchill Summer Contributor(s): Mailer, Norris Church (Author) |
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ISBN: 0345435338 ISBN-13: 9780345435330 Publisher: Random House Publishing Group OUR PRICE: $21.85 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 2001 Annotation: "A CAPTIVATING READ . . . "WINDCHILL SUMMER HAS ALL THE ELEMENTS. . . . A LITTLE MYSTERY, SOME HUMOR, [AND] A DASH OF CHARM." "-The Denver Post "WONDERFULLY SATISFYING AND APPEALING . . . It's the summer of 1969 in a place called Sweet Valley, Arkansas. Cherry and Baby [are] soon to be college seniors at the dinky university just a few miles away. . . . It all looks like a pleasant, predictable American life, but a long second look reveals that things aren't exactly what they seem to be. . . . [Mailer] loves her characters, and we fall in love with them, too." "-The Washington Post Book World "IN GENTLY ROLLING SOUTHERN CADENCES, MAILER CAPTURES THE HORMONAL UPS AND DOWNS OF YOUNG WOMEN TEETERING ON THE VERGE OF ADULTHOOD." "-Entertainment Weekly "THIS WINSOME COMING-OF-AGE NOVEL OFFERS MUCH TO MANY. Cherry, the narrator, is my kind of woman: good-looking, straight-talking, and able to describe what it's like to get amorous when you're wearing ten thousand petticoats. Most important, she's willing to decide for herself what's true." -ELIZABETH BERG "SMOOTHLY WRITTEN, SWEETLY SENTIMENTAL." "-The New York Times Book Review |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Women - Fiction | Coming Of Age |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2001116903 |
| Physical Information: 1.1" H x 4.46" W x 9.28" (1.20 lbs) 432 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1950-1999 - Chronological Period - 1960's - Cultural Region - Southeast U.S. - Demographic Orientation - Small Town - Geographic Orientation - Arkansas - Seasonal - Summer - Topical - Friendship |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: "A CAPTIVATING READ . . . WINDCHILL SUMMER HAS ALL THE ELEMENTS. . . . A LITTLE MYSTERY, SOME HUMOR, AND] A DASH OF CHARM." -The Denver Post "WONDERFULLY SATISFYING AND APPEALING . . . It's the summer of 1969 in a place called Sweet Valley, Arkansas. Cherry and Baby are] soon to be college seniors at the dinky university just a few miles away. . . . It all looks like a pleasant, predictable American life, but a long second look reveals that things aren't exactly what they seem to be. . . . Mailer] loves her characters, and we fall in love with them, too." -The Washington Post Book World "IN GENTLY ROLLING SOUTHERN CADENCES, MAILER CAPTURES THE HORMONAL UPS AND DOWNS OF YOUNG WOMEN TEETERING ON THE VERGE OF ADULTHOOD." -Entertainment Weekly "THIS WINSOME COMING-OF-AGE NOVEL OFFERS MUCH TO MANY. Cherry, the narrator, is my kind of woman: good-looking, straight-talking, and able to describe what it's like to get amorous when you're wearing ten thousand petticoats. Most important, she's willing to decide for herself what's true." -ELIZABETH BERG "SMOOTHLY WRITTEN, SWEETLY SENTIMENTAL." -The New York Times Book Review |