Download or read book The Summer Friend written by Charles McGrath and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2023-06-13 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alive with the intoxicating magic of summer in New England, former editor of the New York Times Book Review Charles McGrath’s evocative memoir looks back at that sun-soaked season, at family, youth, and a singular bond made at a time when he thought he was beyond making friends. “To read Chip McGrath’s gentle, elegant memoir … is to lose yourself in your own past summers, especially the ones of your youth, when you imagined there’d be an infinite number of them, and also friends to share those summers with. That both turn out to be numbered makes this book positively ache with beauty and loss.” —Richard Russo It was early evening and a new acquaintance had come to retrieve his daughter from a play date. Instead of driving up in a minivan, he arrived by water, tacking his sailboat smartly across a squiggly channel in the marsh, throwing a rope overboard, and zipping back home, his gleeful daughter riding in the wake. Who knew you could do such a thing? And how could you resist befriending a man such as that? Over the course of this rich memoir, McGrath recalls with a gimlet eye the pleasures of summers past: amateur lobstering, 9-hole golf, family costume charades, bridge-jumping, and a friendship forged between two men from different backgrounds who came together late in life. Recounting the vagaries of summer with such precision and warmth-- peeling long strips of sunburnt skin from your shoulder as if “shuffling off your own cocoon,” the outdoor shower curtain blowing open in the breeze, an M80 firework in the mailbox--The Summer Friend is simultaneously a potent evocation of the rhythms and rituals of summer and a stirring remembrance of a friend found and then lost.
Download or read book Summery of the Summer Friend written by Ronald A Johnson and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2022-06-25 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is not the original book, is the summery of the book summer friend by Charles Grath. Description of the book by Charles Grath.. Alive with the intoxicating magic of summer in New England, former editor of the New York Times Book Review Charles McGrath's evocative memoir looks back at that sun-soaked season, at family, youth, and a singular bond made at a time when he thought he was beyond making friends. "To read Chip McGrath's gentle, elegant memoir ... is to lose yourself in your own past summers, especially the ones of your youth, when you imagined there'd be an infinite number of them, and also friends to share those summers with. That both turn out to be numbered makes this book positively ache with beauty and loss." -Richard Russo It was early evening and a new acquaintance had come to retrieve his daughter from a play date. Instead of driving up in a minivan, he arrived by water, tacking his sailboat smartly across a squiggly channel in the marsh, throwing a rope overboard, and zipping back home, his gleeful daughter riding in the wake. Who knew you could do such a thing? And how could you resist befriending a man such as that? Over the course of this rich memoir, McGrath recalls with a gimlet eye the pleasures of summers past: amateur lobstering, 9-hole golf, family costume charades, bridge-jumping, and a friendship forged between two men from different backgrounds who came together late in life. Recounting the vagaries of summer with such precision and warmth peeling long strips of sunburnt skin from your shoulder as if "shuffling off your own cocoon," the outdoor shower curtain blowing open in the breeze, an M80 firework in the mail box-- The Summer Friend is simultaneously a potent evocation of the rhythms and rituals of summer and a stirring remembrance of a friend found and then lost
Download or read book Summer Friends written by Jane Porter Meier and published by . This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 55 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cassie, who is spending the summer with her aunt while her parents go through a divorce, becomes friends with Joey, a boy in a wheelchair who lives nearby with his grandmother.
Download or read book The Summer Friend written by Helen Eastwood and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Summer Friends written by Phyllis Lambert and published by Covenant Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2022-01-07 with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the friendship shared between two friends unfolds as they enjoy a beautiful summer day. The farm where they live is the perfect place to release every ounce of childhood energy, while it also offers the solitude necessary to simply have a time of relaxation from the cares of the world. Petie and Arnie will show that there is adventure to be found living on a farm. They demonstrate through the pages that, not only can there be great awareness through country living, but also that such a life can be filled with, and develop, a greater sense of adventure and personal structure in simple country living.
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