Windchill Summer: A Novel (Ballantine Reader's Circle)

ISBN: 0345435338

Author: Mailer, Norris Church Church

Condition: New

A CAPTIVATING READ . . . WINDCHILL SUMMER HAS ALL THE ELEMENTS. . . . A LITTLE MYSTERY, SOME HUMOR,[AND] A DASH OF CHARM.-The Denver PostWONDERFULLY SATISFYING AND APPEALING . . . Its the summer of 1969 in a place called Sweet Valley, Arkansas. Cherry and Baby [are] soon to be college seniors at the dinky university just a few miles away. . . . It all looks like a pleasant, predictable American life, but a long second look reveals that things arent exactly what they seem to be. . . . [Mailer] loves her characters, and we fall in love with them, too.-The Washington Post Book WorldIN GENTLY ROLLING SOUTHERN CADENCES, MAILER CAPTURES THE HORMONAL UPS AND DOWNS OF YOUNG WOMEN TEETERING ON THE VERGE OF ADULTHOOD.-Entertainment WeeklyTHIS WINSOME COMING-OF-AGE NOVEL OFFERS MUCH TO MANY. Cherry, the narrator, is my kind of woman: good-looking, straight-talking, and able to describe what its like to get amorous when youre wearing ten thousand petticoats. Most important, shes willing to decide for herself whats true.-ELIZABETH BERGSMOOTHLY WRITTEN, SWEETLY SENTIMENTAL.-The New York Times Book Review