Patterson Glenn - Two Summers - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: A pair of novellas set over two pivotal summers in the lives of two young men from Belfast recall the constraints of the place where they were born and the times in which they are living. Summer on the Road It's 1980 and in the last summer before his A levels Mark lands a job he didn t even know he had applied for sweeping streets for Belfast City Council. Called binman by his schoolfriends snooty by his workmates he can t imagine anything less like a holiday. Day by day though navigating bomb scares punishing hangovers broken television sets and a loving but chaotic home life he begins to glimpse a path all his own even if he can t see yet where exactly it is going to lead. Last Summer of the Shangri - Las Three years earlier Gem has driven his mother to the brink. She packs him off to stay with his aunt in New York during the infernal heat of the summer of 1977. It's the summer too of disco of punk the summer of Sam and Elvis dead on the bathroom floor. For Gem though it will forever after be the summer he met Vivien as rooted in the city as he is adrift; the summer he stumbled on Mary Liz and Margie three - quarters of the greatest New York group of all (and they d fight anyone who said otherwise); the summer he learned how to go home. Capturing the innocence of adolescent boys their passion confusion and yearning Two Summers is for anyone who has ever been young.
Title: Two Summers
Author(s): Patterson Glenn
Publisher: New Island Books
Barcode: 9781848408982
Pages: 208 Pages
Publication Date: 11/18/2023
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction