Summer Season
1st Edition
Published on 16. July 2012
160 pages
978-1-4482-0967-5 (ISBN)
Description
First published in 1963, Summer Season records several anxious days in the life of Kenneth Crane, unemployed graduate. Crane has taken a temporary post as tutor to the young son of a luminary in a small seaside town. Crane finds life difficult enough, but almost intolerably so when he finds himself number-one suspect on a possible murder charge. For the delectable Kitty du Chair, by even contemporary standards a remarkably advanced teen-ager, disappears. She has been seen consorting with Crane. The police close in and Crane's behaviour becomes more erratic (and hilarious). Summer Season is like a Jacques Tati film, having the same dream-like, almost surrealist quality. The humour is infectious and will be caught by very many readers.
More details
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN-13
978-1-4482-0967-5 (9781448209675)
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Person
Alan Clark was born in 1928. A British Conservative MP and diarist, Clark is perhaps best known from the years that he served as a junior minister in Margaret Thatcher's governments at the Departments of Employment, Trade, and Defence, and in the Privy Council. Despite being a slightly controversial character politically, he wrote throughout his life and parts of his diaries were published and subsequently televised. He was the author of several books of military history, including his controversial work The Donkeys (1961), which is considered to have inspired the musical satire, Oh, What a Lovely War!, and Aces High, The War in the Air Over the Western Front 1914-18 (1973). He died in 1999.
Content
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Contents
- Chapter 1 Gevaert
- Chapter 2 Kitty
- Chapter 3 Riddle-Brede and Others
- Chapter 4 More of Gevaert
- Chapter 5 The Reverend Pick
- Chapter 6 Mrs. Roydon
- Chapter 7 Ponsonby
- Chapter 8 Cumber
- Chapter 9 Canon Brooke
- Chapter 10 More of Mrs. Roydon
- Chapter 11 Sergeant Chambers
- Chapter 12 Under Suspicion
- Chapter 13 An Afternoon on the Water
- Chapter 14 Desperate Measures
- Chapter 15 Two Nasty Moments
- Chapter 16 More of Sergeant Chambers
- Chapter 17 I Raise a Fire
- A Note on the Author
- Also by the Author
- Imprint
