That Summer - French, David

Clean, tight, unmarked; a couple of small light creases to covers; light wear to corners; spine straight and uncreased; very minimal wear; It's Memorial Day, 1990, and Margaret Ryan has returned from Vermont to the Ontario cottage country where 32 years before, she was forced to vacation with her family at a lakeside resort. For her and her sister Daisy, it was a time of awakening, a time of discovery. As the narrator Margaret watches Maggie, her younger self, relive the innocence and beauty of that summer, the play moves inexorably back to the heartbreak of a headlong surrender to experience, both won and lost in a single day. Cinematic in its feel and pacing, recalling the '50s genre of Dirty Dancing and My American Cousin, That Summer is a meditation on what endures of fleeting moments over time.
Very Good
Soft cover
Talonbooks
2000
Vancouver, BC