by JaneHamilton (Author)
Walter McCloud was constantly eclipsed by those around him - his beautiful, talented friends, his flamboyant relatives, his golden-boy brother, Daniel. He was always the outsider, never the star. But the summer of 1972 was a turning point in the life of fifteen-year-old Walter. It was the time when he realized that his great passion for dance would never be matched by his talent; the time when he discovered the funny agony of first love' and the time when he watched his brother declining into a cruel, untimely death. It is only when, twenty-four years later, Walter returns to fight for the survival of his childhood Eden, his family's lakeside summer home, that he finally discovers a way to reconcile himself to the past in a way that gives hope for the future.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 432
Edition: New edition
Publisher: Black Swan
Published: 01 Apr 1999
ISBN 10: 055299801X
ISBN 13: 9780552998017
Book Overview: A moving novel about a young man looking back at a formative time in his adolescence. By the acclaimed author of A MAP OF THE WORLD and THE BOOK OF RUTH.
Prizes: Shortlisted for Orange Prize for Fiction 1999.