{"product_id":"the-summer-friend-a-memoir-paperback","title":"The Summer Friend: A Memoir - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eCharles McGrath\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAlive with the intoxicating magic of summer in New England, former editor of the \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eNew York Times Book Review \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eCharles McGrath's evocative memoir looks back at that sun-soaked season, at family, youth, and a singular bond made at a time when he thought he was beyond making friends.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Sun-drenched and deeply touching.\" \u003ci\u003e--The New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Positively aches with beauty and loss.\" --Richard Russo, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of \u003ci\u003eEmpire Falls\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIt 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? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOver the course of this rich memoir, McGrath recalls with a gimlet eye the pleasures of summers past: amateur lobstering, 9-hole golf, family costume charades, bridge-jumping, and a friendship forged between two men from different backgrounds who came together late in life. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eRecounting 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 mailbox--The Summer Friend is simultaneously a potent evocation of the rhythms and rituals of summer and a stirring remembrance of a friend found and then lost.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eCharles McGrath, known as Chip, is the former deputy editor of \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker \u003c\/i\u003eand a former editor of \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review, \u003c\/i\u003eand is currently a contributing writer at \u003ci\u003eThe Times. \u003c\/i\u003eHe is the editor of \u003ci\u003eGolf Stories, \u003c\/i\u003e two Library of America volumes, and an occasional contributor to \u003ci\u003eGolf Digest. \u003c\/i\u003eHe\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003elives with his wife in northern New Jersey and southeastern Massachusetts.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 240\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 7.9 x 5.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 13, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51772638527776,"sku":"9780593466483","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/087ce968462adfe0f417edcafeaf98f9.webp?v=1780410246","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-summer-friend-a-memoir-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}