- Paperback: 618 pages
- Publisher: McArthur & Co (July 11 2002)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1552782964
- ISBN-13: 978-1552782965
- Product Dimensions: 18 x 11.2 x 4.3 cm
- Shipping Weight: 431 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #753,001 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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In Last Summer at Barebones, Diane Baker's novel of a painful childhood leavened with dashes of humour, Dee Graham, a journalist now approaching middle age, writes for a gutter tabloid. We learn in the first line that she plans to shoot her sister, a standup comic with the stage name Vagina Dentata. As the headline in Dee's tabloid might read, Former Fat Girl Takes Her Revenge in Gory Shooting.
Much of the book is a flashback to the summer when Dee was 13 and her sister Teresa a gorgeous, popular girl of 16. As always, the family, led by "the Dad" and the girls' feckless, whited-out mother, spends the idyllic summer months in a primitive cottage on an island at Barebones Lake. Along with them, Mason has peopled her story with a number of memorable characters, including Dee's only friend, the diabetic Richard, and the boy's parents, seemingly mere caricatures of the early '70s, who still manage to come alive. Richard's right-wing father misleads the Dad, while his mother secretly infects all the women with the virus of her newfound feminism. In such a charged environment, the ever-present campfire isn't the only source of sparks. Dee, meanwhile, grows to enormous proportions and plots to escape the horrors of a world she can't face, while her sister tortures her in ways that are horribly typical. --Mark Frutkin --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
Book Description
This utterly wonderful novel recaptures that last summer of 1970 at Barebones Lake.
--This text refers to an alternate
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Amazing book can be hard to read,
By A Customer
This review is from: Last Summer at Barebones (Paperback)
This book takes you right back to the 60's and 70's as quick as a time machine. But it's hard to read at times, because it's so gruellingly honest. Fortunately it's also extremely funny. The ending is a double whammy. Just when you think it's over she hits you again, in a different way. It's a really important book to read, especially for anyone who still feels bad because they were or are picked on for being fat. I couldn't put it down!
5.0 out of 5 stars
Barebones,
By Christa (Nobleton, Ontario, CANADA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Last Summer at Barebones (Paperback)
To anyone who likes to laugh and cry all in one sitting I reccommend this book to you. A great novel; Diane Baker Mason really knows how to pull you into her characters and become attached to their unique personalities. A fantastic read from beginning to end......GO DEE
4.0 out of 5 stars
Good Summer reading,
By A Customer
This review is from: Last Summer at Barebones (Paperback)
"Last Summer at Barebones" is a perfect Summer book. I enjoyed the story and was rooting for Dee.I do agree that the ending kind of stunk. It seemed too rushed. Other than that, great book.
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