July, July

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Publication Year:
2002

ISBN-13: 9780547523729

<DIV><B>A &ldquo;perceptive, affectionate, and often very funny&rdquo; novel about old college friends at a thirty-year reunion, by the author of <I>The Things They Carried</I> (<I>Boston Herald</I>).</B><BR /> &#160;<BR /> From a National Book Award winner who&rsquo;s been called &ldquo;the best American writer of his generation&rdquo; (<I>San Francisco Examiner</I>), <I>July, July</I> tells the story of ten old friends who attended Darton Hall College together back in 1969, and now reunite for a summer weekend of dancing, drinking, flirting, reminiscing&mdash;and regretting.<BR /> &#160;<BR /> The three decades since graduation have brought marriage and divorce, children and careers, hopes deferred and replaced. This witty, heart-rending novel about men and women who came into adulthood at a moment when American ideals and innocence began to fade, a <I>New York Times</I> Notable Book, is &ldquo;deeply satisfying&rdquo; (<I>O, the Oprah Magazine</I>) and &ldquo;almost impossible to put down&rdquo; (<I>Austin American-Statesman</I>).<BR /> &#160;<BR /> &ldquo;A symphony of American life.&rdquo; &mdash;All Things Considered, NPR<BR /> &#160;</DIV>