Lost Moon Summer

✍ Scribed by Stu Lisson

• Book ID: 115146150
• Publisher: BookBaby
• Year: 2024
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 259 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9798350945751

✦ Synopsis

Childhood memories burning bright, Sam Walters journeys back to his hometown, scene of a misspent boyhood. Equal parts idyllic and tumultuous; this period of young Sammy's life was never far from his thoughts in later years. Revisiting places of elusive hopes, fears, and dreams where he spent hours dodging neighborhood bullies, trolling deliverymen, indulging in endless mischief and teaching his rowdy posse the art of making flame-throwing match guns, Walters rekindles recollections of simpler times and the magic summer he shared with his extended family and a handful of youthful delinquents.

"If you liked The Christmas Story by Jean Shepherd, you should try Lost Moon Summer. You'll encounter the perilous sport of ice cream truck trolling, sleepaway camp, bicycle dreams...and wistfully wonderful lists: if the Iliad had been written in the Eisenhower era, Homer's catalogue of ships might have been replaced by these inventories of Swanson TV dinners, movie theater candy,...