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Original Title:	Last Summer
ISBN:	0583117171 (ISBN13: 9780583117173)
Series:	Last Summer #1

Last Summer (Last Summer #1) Paperback | Pages: 170 pages

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Last summer was a vacation island, beachgrass and plum, sunshine and sand...Last summer was a million laughs...Last summer a pretty blonde girl and two carefree, suntanned youths nursed an injured seagull back to health...Last summer, too, they befriended Rhoda, a shy young girl with trusting eyes...

Let the reader beware. This is a shocking book - not for its candor and daring but for its cruelty and scorn, its shattering impact, and its terrifying vision of reality. What begins as a vacation idyll gradually turns into a dark parable of modern society, revealing the insensate barbarity of man.

The opening is as bright as summer, as calm as a cobra dozing in the sun. But, as summer and compassion wane, the author strips away the pretense of youth and lays bare the blunt, primeval urge to crush, defile, betray. The tragic, inevitable outcome exposes the depths of moral corruption and the violation of the soul.

In this tale of depravity, Evan Hunter has written a novel that is a work of art. Its theme and portent are inescapable, its insolence cauterizing, its humor outrageous - a brilliant stabbing, altogether unforgettable book.

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Title	:	Last Summer (Last Summer #1)
Author	:	Evan Hunter
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 170 pages
Published	:	1969 by Signet (first published 1968)
Categories	:	Fiction. Horror. Young Adult. Coming Of Age. Literature. American

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Plenty of reviews sing the praises of this book but I didn't think it was that mind-blowing. Teenagers Are Psychopaths And Do Something Shitty and Irreversible But Feel No Remorse is a well-trod genre and this was kind of a boring and meandering stroll through it. Unlike other books where the characters are actually likeable even when they are shitty people, the kids in this were just boring spoiled kids on a summer vacation who decide to ruin another person's life because....they think she's

I read this novel while I was in high school in the late '70s. The story has stayed with me ever since. I wonder if I would find it as memorable at 55?

I cat sit in the apartments of friends in the summer and this one in East Harlem, maybe not far from the authors childhood home, has a few Evan Hunter/EdMcBain novels on the bookshelf. One of which is an old Signet paperback of Last Summer. I needed something to read and since I had positive feelings about the old movie and the novel is only 206 pages, I thought, Why not? Sometimes it is good to follow an impulse. I had remembered the movie as being good and the first time in saw both Barbara

I was way too young to read this book when I did. I saw the movie as well and have hated Barbara Hershey ever since. Not an easy read.

I loved this one so much! The writing style, the story, the characters - everything was perfect. Funny, cruel and incredibly disturbing at the same time, just how I like my books. Seriously gave me some "The Secret History" and "Lord of the Flies" vibes character- and relationship-wise, the latter being just straight-up messy and manipulative (not to say sick). Trust me, a mix of both of these books is something you definitely want to read. I have literally no criticism and can't wait to read

The classic coming-of-age story (& a damn good movie, too)!

Could not finish, very boring.