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Summer of '42

By: Herman Raucher
Narrated by: Braden Wright
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A classic coming-of-age story and international best seller.

Captivating and evocative, Herman Raucher's semi-autobiographical tale has been made into a record-breaking Academy Award-nominated hit movie, adapted for the stage, and enchanted for generations.

In the summer of 1942, Hermie is 15. He is wildly obsessed with sex, and passionately in love with an "older woman" of 22, whose husband is overseas and at war. Ambling through Nantucket Island with his friends, Hermie's indelible narration chronicles his frantic efforts to become a man, especially one worthy of the lovely Dorothy, as well as his glorious and heartbreaking initiation into sex.

©1971 Herman Raucher (P)2017 Herman Raucher Coming of Age Fiction Genre Fiction Historical Fiction Literature & Fiction
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The ending was more deep and moving than the movie. Loved it so much, i have purchased a hardcover copy to keep forever.

Five Stars. Beautiful.

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