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The Summer of Apartment X First edition
Lesley Choyce
The Summer of Apartment X First edition
Lesley Choyce
Lesley Choyce's novella The Summer of Apartment X is a beach book for grownups who remember how they got that way. Fred Winger and his two buddies, Richard and Brian, intend to take the beach resort town by storm. It's the fateful summer between high school and university, early 1970s version. Equipped with two barely mobile cars and a seized-up MG motor, around which Richard wants to build an entire sports car, they plan to rent a suave apartment, get cool jobs, meet girls, and lose their virginity. Dream and reality diverge immediately.
The Summer of Apartment X lurks in everyone's past: the first foray beyond the view of elders, the first attempt at self-support, the shocking recognition that adulthood involves more than sand, sex, and cars. Lesley Choyce recreates this exhilarating terror in the Technicolor of a B-movie poster, nostalgia undercut at every turn by ebullient humour.
144 pages
Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
Released | June 1, 1999 |
ISBN13 | 9780864922700 |
Publishers | Goose Lane Editions |
Pages | 144 |
Dimensions | 127 × 177 × 10 mm · 200 g (Weight (estimated)) |
Language | English |
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