The Summer Friend Audiobook Libro.fm

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Alive with the intoxicating magic of summer in New England former editor of the New York Times Book Review Charles McGraths evocative memoir looks back at that sunsoaked season at family youth and a singular bond made at a time when he thought he was beyond making friends

Sundrenched and deeply touching The New York Times

It was early evening and a new acquaintance had come to retrieve his daughter from a play date Instead of driving up in a minivan he arrived by water tacking his sailboat smartly across a squiggly channel in the marsh throwing a rope overboard and zipping back home his gleeful daughter riding in the wake Who knew you could do such a thing And how could you resist befriending a man such as that

Over the course of this rich memoir McGrath recalls with a gimlet eye the pleasures of summers past amateur lobstering 9hole golf family costume charades bridgejumping and a friendship forged between two men from different backgrounds who came together late in life

Recounting the vagaries of summer with such precision and warmth peeling long strips of sunburnt skin from your shoulder as if shuffling off your own cocoon the outdoor shower curtain blowing open in the breeze an M80 firework in the mailboxTheSummer Friendis simultaneously a potent evocation of the rhythms and rituals of summer and a stirring remembrance of a friend found and then lost