- Hardcover: 304 pages
- Publisher: Riverhead (HC); 1 edition (Jun 5 2007)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1594489173
- ISBN-13: 978-1594489174
- Product Dimensions: 21.1 x 14.7 x 3.3 cm
- Shipping Weight: 408 g
- Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #212,212 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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From Publishers Weekly
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants author delivers her first novel for adults, a treacly tale about the tribulations a trio of longtime friends encounter. For as long as she can remember, 21-year-old Alice has spent summers on Fire Island with her parents and older sister, Riley. Riley, 24, is a beach lifeguard, more boyish in both looks and spirit than sweet, feminine Alice. An island neighbor and Riley's best friend, Paul, whose father is dead and mother mostly absent, returns to the island after two years away and must decide whether to sell his family's house there. More importantly, he and Alice finally act on an attraction they've felt for years, but they keep their frequent nuzzling quiet so as not to hurt Riley. Riley, meanwhile, has her own problems that could ruin Alice and Paul's clandestine romance and just about everything else. Brashares's YA roots are on display: the girls and Paul act like high school kids (Riley threatens to move out of the house unless everyone butts out; Paul and Alice are stricken with the most saccharine of puppy love), and anything below the surface is left untouched. It's a beach read, for sure, but a mediocre one. (June)
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From the author of the multimillion-copy, #1 bestselling series The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants comes a heartbreaking first adult novel.
Ann Brashares's series, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, has made her one of the most successful contemporary authors, shipping more than 8 million copies over the last five years and winning even more millions of passionate fans. Now, like Judy Blume (Summer Sisters) before her, Brashares turns her spectacular gifts to adult readers. In The Last Summer (of You and Me), Brashares uses her remarkable storytelling, emotional insights, and talent for capturing relationships to weave a rich, textured, mature novel that will resonate as clearly with readers in their forties as in their twenties.
Set on Long Island's Fire Island, The Last Summer (of You and Me) is an enchanting, heartrending page- turner about sisterhood, friendship, love, loss, and growing up. It is the story of a beach community friendship triangle-Riley and Alice, two sisters in their twenties, and Paul, the young man they've grown up with-and what happens one summer when budding love, sexual curiosity, a sudden serious illness, and a deep secret all collide, launching the friends into an adult world from which their summer haven can no longer protect them.
As wise, compelling, and endearing as her Traveling Pants series, and as lyrical, thoughtful, and moving as the best literary women's fiction, this novel is sure to win an entire new generation of adult fans.
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Front Cover | Copyright | Excerpt | Index | Back Cover
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars
Light read but with substance,
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This review is from: The Last Summer (of You and Me) (Paperback)
This is a nice light read for on the beach or on the dock! It will make you yearn for your late teens and early twenties and the carefree summers that were. The style of writing is enjoyable, and the story does carry quite a bit of depth (illness, betrayal, and the confusion that accompanies young love). But still a nice, easy, and feel-good read.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
2.0 out of 5 stars
Navel Gazing at its worst,
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This review is from: The Last Summer of You and Me (Hardcover)
First, let me say that as an adult I am in LOVE with the sisterhood books. They bring back my teen years, and her characterizations are as perfect as the characters themselves are imperfect. She writes about people that could easily be real. That said, I picked up The Last Summer of You and Me with great expectations; perhaps too great. To me, the book is simply badly written. There is next to no plot, and what seems to be endless navel gazing - inward reflections that go on forever. Basically, it's a book about nothing. There was a TV show about nothing that went on for years, but at least it was funny. Ms. Brashares' characters simply take themselves much too seriously. Skip it, and hope her next book is better.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars
At first, I wasn't too sure...,
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This review is from: The Last Summer of You and Me (Hardcover)
then I remembered why I loved reading The Sisterhood books so much and how complex those characters could be, as well. The seemingly endless narration of the 3 main characters' introspectiveness and self-examination eventually led me to remember those other four characters. The pared-down dialogue which bothered me in the beginning must have hit its mark, for having finished the book and started another, I find myself still thinking about Summer.Ms. Brashares can definitely write.
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