Farewell, Summer, by Helen Hooven Santmyer
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It's a long, languorous, country summer in a small Ohio town. After many years spend away as a scholar and a writer, Elizabeth Lane has returned to the setting of her most poignant childhood memories, a town steeped in her family's long history. She comes to Sunbury to work on a book but finds she is haunted by one memory in particular. It was 1905, she was eleven and in love with her cousin, Steve, painfully watching his ill-fated romance with the beautiful Damaris. Looking back, Elizabeth discovers a world of feeling what she knows belong more to adulthood than childhood, and as she sees the tragic, doomed love of Steve and Damaris, she wishes she could be a child forever. Peopled with superbly realized characters, steeped in the golden glow of an era fondly recalled, and marked by the prodigious talent displayed in ". . .And Ladies of the Club," Farewell, Summer is the moving tale of star-crossed love-innocent and elusive-and a young girl coming of age.
Farewell, Summer, by Helen Hooven Santmyer - Amazon Sales Rank: #4190408 in Books
- Brand: Brand: Ohio State Univ Pr (Trd)
- Published on: 2015-10-01
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.50" h x .29" w x 5.51" l, .36 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 122 pages
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Farewell, Summer, by Helen Hooven Santmyer From Publishers Weekly Written shortly before the bestselling . . . And Ladies of the Club, this slim novel tells, in the leisurely, old-fashioned style that has endeared Santmyer to many readers, about an ill-fated love affair that occurred in the town of Sunbury, Ohio, one summer, long ago. Damaris, a high-spirited beauty, returns home from a convent school and announces she wants to become a nun, an unthinkable idea to her Dutch Presbyterian family. Her cousin Steve, a dreamy young man who yearns to be a poet, comes to Sunbury after his father's death to seek his fortune. The inevitable happens. The two young people, with some encouragement from Damaris's grandfather, begin a flirtation. Steve falls hard, but is caught short by Damaris's shrewd assessment of their personalities: "We need anchors. Together we'd be driftwood." The story leads to an inevitable, disastrous conclusion. This slight, melancholic tale is more successful than Herbs and Apples, less so, of course, than Santmyer's life work ". . . And Ladies." The author shines in her loving recollections of turn-of-the-century Ohio and her exploration of the ties that bindand breakfamilies. Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful. Crazy Cousin Bias By Craig Rowland Yesterday I finished the short novel entitled Farewell, Summer, written by Helen Hooven Santmyer. This was her last novel and it was published posthumously in 1988, two years after her death.The story is about a young woman named Elizabeth who returns to the small Ohio town of her childhood. While back home she relives the preadolescent crush she had on a young man, Steve, from Texas, and she recalls her eleven-year-old jealousy and helplessness when Steve falls in love with a teenager his own age, Damaris.Elizabeth returns home to the fictional town of Sunbury thirty years after her schoolgirl crush. It was in 1905 that she fell in love with the rodeo-riding Texan. Now maybe this was the stuff of small towns or maybe the stuff of a century ago, but as it turns out Steve and Elizabeth and Damaris are all cousins. The idea of first cousins or even second cousins falling in love with one another seems all too creepy to me. This was common in the 1800's as I do recall somewhat incestuous pairings-up in pioneer dramas, but in 1905? In small-town Ohio?I found the funniest moments reading about demented cousin Tobias, known as either "Bias" or "Tobe", and his futile search trying to recall where he buried one thousand dollars in gold coins. Nobody in the novel wants to hire him for odd-job yard work since he always ends up skiving and digging up their property.Santmyer once again evokes the feeling of "being there". This is a comment I read often as I research her work and seek published book reviews. I am among the crickets and the neglected grass that tickles the ankles. I can see the fireflies buzzing around when I read of the evening walks Steve and Damaris embark upon. I can hear the sound of young Elizabeth rollerskating across the pavement, clack-clacking everytime she crosses a pavement crack.There is one more novel in the Santmyer oeuvre; I started reading it today and have already fallen in love with it.
10 of 10 people found the following review helpful. Another enchanting novel from Helen Hooven Santmyer. By A Customer This book is excellent. Just like "And Ladies of the Club" and "Herbs and Apples", Helen Hooven Santmyer has written another truly remarkable novel. The characters and descriptions in this book are so vivid that you actually feel like you've been transported back in time. This is the story of a small-town romance as seen through the eyes of a young girl. It is beautifully told and will bring you laughter and tears.
10 of 11 people found the following review helpful. Delicate Shadows By Bookworm 426 Maybe I'm a sucker for a slender young man in a celluloid collar leaning tenderly over a Gibson girl, but this novel evoked memories of my grandmother's time: silver-handled brushes on a lace doily, a hint of rosewater eau de toilette, and a time that led people through life in measured steps instead of shoving them relentlessly forward. Santmyer's evocation of those lost, languid shadows is richly nuanced, authentic, and delightful.
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