New PDF release: Summer Shares

It used to be 1981 and Chris MacCauley used to be nursing a damaged center, a bruised ego and his personal post-adolescent resistance to his ceremony of passage into grownup maturity.

This satiric novel grapples with the social and sexual matters that confront the lives of a gaggle of younger New Yorkers who percentage a seashore apartment within the Hamptons from Memorial to exertions Day. it really is in the course of that summer time while The Hamptons simply started to develop in recognition ahead of changing into the unique enclave it really is at the present time. The narrator and important personality, in a voice comparable to the 1st individual “J.D. Salinger narrative style,” is wounded from a disastrous love affair together with his ex-girlfriend, Laura. He makes a decision that spending a summer season within the Hamptons could be the top emotional treatment he may adopt.

As the radical unfolds we find out about the opposite percentage individuals via Chris’ interactions with them. we find their restlessness and passions as they cross approximately trying to find a “significant other.” All their passionate and, occasionally, funny dramas are staged at the seashores, on the events, and on the “hot spots” of the Hamptons.

Through his nostalgic voice Chris’ international unfolds in an pleasing sequence of flashbacks, entire with male vulnerabilities, insecurities and the position ego performs in moments of self-clarity: “Most males get older yet now not all mature.” He additionally bargains glimpses of his existence with the materialistic Laura and his lack of ability to enable move. He realizes that studying the way to enable move will be the place the maturing strategy will start for him.

With wit, emotion, laughter and tears, in the course of the process the summer season, Chris reviews much more than he bargained for.