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All Summer Long
Bob Greene
其他書名
A Novel
出版Doubleday, 1993
主題Fiction / General
ISBN03854258999780385425896
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=ivQZAAAACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋For twenty years Bob Greene has been recognized as one of the few writers who brings to journalist the grasp of character, the feeling for time and place, the eye for telling detail, and the emotional intensity found in the work of the best novelists. So it's not surprising that his first novel, All Summer Long, is extraordinarily powerful and irresistibly engaging, glowing with Greene's distinctive blend of warmth, humor, and wisdom. The premise of All Summer Long is simple and immediately seductive: three men, best friends when they were boys - Ben, now a prominent television journalist; Ronnie, a wheeling-and-dealing CEO; and Michael, a schoolteacher - meet again at their twenty-fifth high school reunion, and realize that the most cherished times of their lives happened in the summers of their youth: the summers of the closest friendships, the most rhapsodic loves, the most exuberant days and nights of all. They decide to put their careers and families on hold, and to give themselves something priceless - one more summer in the sun. All Summer Long is the story of their marvelous, once-in-a-lifetime trip around the country: their joys, their discoveries, their crises of conscience - and of the heart - in milieus as diverse as the Cubs' clubhouse in Chicago's Wrigley Field, a state fair in Ohio, Elvis Presley's old suite atop the Las Vegas Hilton, a long-ago girlfriend's birthday party in suburban Missouri, a movie sneak preview at a Southern California mall, a convention of dental hygienists in Atlanta. Hilarious and heart-breaking, innocent and knowing, romantic and unsentimental, All Summer Long will carry you along on the trip, as it opens your eyes anew to life's promise andhope, to the breathtaking variety of the American pageant - and to the enduring power of friendship.