Summer Before The Summer of Love

by Marly Swick (Author)

• Used

  Paperback
  1999

  $7.98

  Ten short stories on the human experience of love, set in the American midwest. Evan lies in bed in his cheap motel room beside his wife and thinks about her friend Delia in the next room; and Lynne is mourning for her ex-lover, knowing that the only person who shares her grief is his wife.

• Used

  Paperback
  1998

  $29.13

  The characters in Marly Swick's stories inhabit the ordinary world of smalltownAmerica, of shopping malls, garage sale & school runs. But as they adapt to love, loss and the frustations of everyday life, the rich complexity of their lives unfolds. In the title story, a young girl goes to a Beatles concert with her mother and sister, and faces the emotional balancing act posed by the recentseparation of her parents; in The Other Widow a grieving mistress meets her deceased lover's wife; in Crete , a woman who cheated death is now faced with the loss of her baby, and the fear that her little daughter's life was taken be-cause her own was spared. In a style as beautiful as it is unsentimental, MarlySwick charts the terrain of ordinary lives, to confront the emotional truths they contain.