It is the summer of 1967 and, with one more year of high school to go, Leo Suther still has a lot to learn. He's in love with Allie Donovan, the beautiful girl who has turned his head ever since she moved to his small Massachusetts town. And he feels a real draw to the blues his father has taught him. Leo soon finds himself in the middle of a consuming love affair - and an intense testing of his political values by Allie's father, who challenges him on the escalating Vietnam conflict and forces him to examine just where he stands in relation to the people in his life. Throughout his - and the nation's - unforgettable 'summer of love', Leo is learning the language of the blues, which seem to echo the mourning he feels for his dead mother, his occasionally distant father, and the youth that is fast giving way to manhood.
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As strong, sweet and clear as the blues he writes about * Seattle Times * Andre Dubus III has a keen and generous eye, and the great gift of bestowing dignity on his people * Tobias Wolff * One of the best American novels I've ever read. A stunning book...No one who reads this novel will ever forget it -- James Lee Burke The finest novel of the year. Enormously affecting * Time Out * A stunning and original new novel...Beautiful, gripping and highly intelligent * The Times *
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978-1-4090-1809-4 (9781409018094)
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Andre Dubus III was born in 1959. He is the author of three books, and lives in Newburyport, Massachusetts with his wife and children.
