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Fiction.
Literature.
HTML:With a rare combination of emotional insight, narrative power, and lyrical grace, Justin Cronin transforms the simple story of a dying man??s last wish into a rich tapestry of family love.
??A work of art . . . a great American novel.???The Philadelphia Inquirer
On an evening in late summer, the great financier Harry Wainwright, nearing the end of his life, arrives at a rustic fishing camp in a remote area of Maine. He comes bearing two things: his wish for a day of fishing in a place that has brought him solace for thirty years, and an astonishing bequest that will forever change the lives of those around him.
From the battlefields of Italy to the turbulence of the Vietnam era, to the private battles of love and family, The Summer Guest reveals the full history of this final pilgrimage and its meaning for four people: Jordan Patterson, the haunted young man who will guide Harry on his last voyage out; the camp??s owner Joe Crosby, a Vietnam draft evader who has spent a lifetime ??trying to learn what it means to be brave?; Joe??s wife, Lucy, the woman Harry has loved for three decades; and Joe and Lucy??s daughter Kate??the spirited young woman who holds the key to the last unopened door to the past.
As their stories unfold, secrets are revealed, courage is tested, and the bonds of love are strengthened. And always center stage is the place itself??a magical, forgotten corner of New England where the longings of the human heart are mirrored in the wild beauty of the landscape.
Intimate, powerful, and profound, The Summer Guest reveals Justin Cronin as a storyteller of unique and marvelous… (más)
The only other book by Justin Cronin that I've read was The Passage, a post-apocalyptic non-traditional vampire road saga. I liked it pretty well, although I thought the ending was rather weak. Whether you like that kind of novel is irrelevant for this review, because I am here to tell you that this book is about as far from The Passage thematically and stylistically as you can get.
The Summer Guest is set at a remote fishing camp in Maine, during the time span from post World War II to more or less the present. It follows several generations of owners, employees and guests of the resort as they come together and drift apart in a complex waltz of love, friendship, desire, anger, illness, and fear. The viewpoint shifts among several of the main characters and gradually reveals each of their secrets and desires.
There are no car crashes and certainly no vampires lurking — this is not Stephen King's Maine! It is a lovely, gentle story told in a lyrical fashion that honors its characters enough to let them speak for themselves. And it may well make you want to book your next vacation at a New England fishing camp even if, like me, you prefer to encounter fish battered and fried with a squeeze of lemon. ( )
[[Justin Cronin]] is more well known for his vampire trilogy, which is a wonderful and unique entry in that world. But this book is unfairly overlooked as a result. Though not quite on the same scale as the trilogy, the book is still an epic historical fiction tracking one family in northern Maine at a campground. The patriarch is battle-scarred, physically and emotionally, from his service in World War II. The character for whom the book is named is an Uber-wealthy tycoon who is living with his own pain, and now at the end of his life. He arrives at the camp for one last fishing expedition but with a lot more on his mind than fish. The writing is poetic and evocative, and the story not the overly saccharin into which many of these sort can fall. Part of what elevated the vampire trilogy was Cronin's literary mindset he used to tackle the genre. This earlier book puts that wonderful ability on display. Highly recommended. ( )
A family who runs a camp in rural northern Maine, expands to include a rich man who visits once a year and a man who escapes his life to lead fishing expeditions. The patriarch, a damaged survivor of WWII, runs an underground railroad for those selling to dodge the draft and head to Canada. When the rich man comes to the camp to die, the entire family, extended and otherwise, assemble. ( )
The primary setting for the novel Summer Guest is a summer camp in Maine. It is a family saga that covers three generations beginning shortly after World War II and ending in the late 1900’s. The story is told from the points of view of family members from each generation as they go through life in the camp. The one exception to the camp story relates the experiences of Joe, Jr. when he went to Canada to evade the draft during the years of the Viet Nam War. Nonetheless, the individual stories blend together exceptionally well to create a poignant and unforgettable tale.
The book is about family bonds and family love. It is also about forgiveness, unrequited love and unconditional love. It is about how lives become intertwined in such a way as to cause both hurt and happiness. And reader beware…..it is sometimes happy and sometimes very sad. ( )
A loving and beautifully-realized portrait of a family running a fishing lodge in Maine and their 30-year relationship with a wealthy businessman who arrives for one week each summer. First-person chapters rotate among the main characters and slowly reveal the importance of the connections among the group. Wonderful. ( )
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I'll look for you in old Honolulu, San Francisco, Ashtabula, Yer gonna have to leave me now, I know. But I'll see you in the sky above, In the tall grass, in the ones I loves, Yer gonna make me lonesome when you go.
- Bob Dylan, 'You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go'
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Voor Leslie en Iris
For Leslie and for Iris
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Ten noorden van Boston reden ze langs de zee.
North of Boston they followed the sea.
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There are regulars, too, people who come up here every year at the times they like best: early summer for the big mayfly hatches, or else the long dry days of August, after the blackflies have gone, the days are as crisp as a butterfly on pins, and the fish have wised up and aren’t especially hungry besides – not the easiest time to catch then, but that’s not why these folks are here, and not why I’m here, either.
Of all the concessions one must make to age, I have discovered this is actually the easiest to face, because its theme is not scarcity but abundance: we have simply loved too many others – spouses, lovers, children, dogs, in all the golden days and hours in our lives – to add one more to the pile. Love there is between us, but it’s an impersonal sort of love, more like a recollection of love than the thing, itself, and what we have to offer one another is the chance to sip together from the cup of memory.
“Here’s the question, Harry. Do you want to go home? Because if you do, there are things that can be done.” He nods me along. “To make you comfortable.” He is asking me where I want to die, of course. It is not a question one longs to hear. And yet I am glad he has asked it.
I loved him as one can only love such a dog; but I also knew what he was. Behind his eyes, twin chestnuts of the most tender soulfulness, lay encased in its suitcase of bone, a brain that knew nothing at all of time or sorrow or even the true joy that sorrow makes possible – only its own desire to please, an aching, needful love that could achieve its fullest contentment with the most meager offering: a stale biscuit, a walk around the block to do his business, a pat on his golden head. His own existence, its nature and finitude, was a mystery to him; he might have thought he was a person, or else I was a dog. The day I took him to the vet to have him put down – he was thirteen, his hips so bad he could barely walk to his bowl – I could think of only this to say: “You have been a good dog, and a great comfort to me, and I thank you.” It was all he wanted to hear. I’d never wished so badly to be the dog he thought I was.
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Net als liefde bedrijven, dacht ik, en dat was wat ik dacht toen ik het hoorde: het geluid van Jordans gelukkige gesnik en de schelle muziek van het eerste kreetje van een kind.
Fiction.
Literature.
HTML:With a rare combination of emotional insight, narrative power, and lyrical grace, Justin Cronin transforms the simple story of a dying man??s last wish into a rich tapestry of family love.
??A work of art . . . a great American novel.???The Philadelphia Inquirer
On an evening in late summer, the great financier Harry Wainwright, nearing the end of his life, arrives at a rustic fishing camp in a remote area of Maine. He comes bearing two things: his wish for a day of fishing in a place that has brought him solace for thirty years, and an astonishing bequest that will forever change the lives of those around him.
From the battlefields of Italy to the turbulence of the Vietnam era, to the private battles of love and family, The Summer Guest reveals the full history of this final pilgrimage and its meaning for four people: Jordan Patterson, the haunted young man who will guide Harry on his last voyage out; the camp??s owner Joe Crosby, a Vietnam draft evader who has spent a lifetime ??trying to learn what it means to be brave?; Joe??s wife, Lucy, the woman Harry has loved for three decades; and Joe and Lucy??s daughter Kate??the spirited young woman who holds the key to the last unopened door to the past.
As their stories unfold, secrets are revealed, courage is tested, and the bonds of love are strengthened. And always center stage is the place itself??a magical, forgotten corner of New England where the longings of the human heart are mirrored in the wild beauty of the landscape.
Intimate, powerful, and profound, The Summer Guest reveals Justin Cronin as a storyteller of unique and marvelous
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The Summer Guest is set at a remote fishing camp in Maine, during the time span from post World War II to more or less the present. It follows several generations of owners, employees and guests of the resort as they come together and drift apart in a complex waltz of love, friendship, desire, anger, illness, and fear. The viewpoint shifts among several of the main characters and gradually reveals each of their secrets and desires.
There are no car crashes and certainly no vampires lurking — this is not Stephen King's Maine! It is a lovely, gentle story told in a lyrical fashion that honors its characters enough to let them speak for themselves. And it may well make you want to book your next vacation at a New England fishing camp even if, like me, you prefer to encounter fish battered and fried with a squeeze of lemon. (