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ISBN10: 0345435338
ISBN13: 9780345435330
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Published: Jul 3 2001
Pages: 432
Weight: 1.20
Height: 1.10 Width: 4.46 Depth: 9.28
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780345435330
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Published: Jul 3 2001
Pages: 432
Weight: 1.20
Height: 1.10 Width: 4.46 Depth: 9.28
Language: English
A CAPTIVATING READ . . . WINDCHILL SUMMER HAS ALL THE ELEMENTS. . . . A LITTLE MYSTERY, SOME HUMOR,
[AND] A DASH OF CHARM.
-The Denver Post
WONDERFULLY SATISFYING AND APPEALING . . . It's 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 aren't exactly what they seem to be. . . . [Mailer] loves her characters, and we fall in love with them, too.
[AND] A DASH OF CHARM.
-The Denver Post
WONDERFULLY SATISFYING AND APPEALING . . . It's 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 aren't exactly what they seem to be. . . . [Mailer] loves her characters, and we fall in love with them, too.
-The Washington Post Book World
IN GENTLY ROLLING SOUTHERN CADENCES, MAILER CAPTURES THE HORMONAL UPS AND DOWNS OF YOUNG WOMEN TEETERING ON THE VERGE OF ADULTHOOD.
-Entertainment Weekly
THIS 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 it's like to get amorous when you're wearing ten thousand petticoats. Most important, she's willing to decide for herself what's true.
-ELIZABETH BERG SMOOTHLY WRITTEN, SWEETLY SENTIMENTAL.
-The New York Times Book Review
IN GENTLY ROLLING SOUTHERN CADENCES, MAILER CAPTURES THE HORMONAL UPS AND DOWNS OF YOUNG WOMEN TEETERING ON THE VERGE OF ADULTHOOD.
-Entertainment Weekly
THIS 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 it's like to get amorous when you're wearing ten thousand petticoats. Most important, she's willing to decide for herself what's true.
-ELIZABETH BERG SMOOTHLY WRITTEN, SWEETLY SENTIMENTAL.
-The New York Times Book Review
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