A gripping, unforgettable portrait of life in a Montauk summer house-a debut memoir of first love, identity and self-discovery among a group of friends who became family. "'We were sun children chasing an eternal summer.' This boisterous chronicle of a summer in Montauk sees a group of 20-something
Out East: Memoir of a Montauk Summer
β Scribed by John Glynn
- Book ID
- 100107401
- Publisher
- Grand Central Publishing
- Year
- 2019
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 137 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 1538746646
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β¦ Synopsis
"An unforgettable story told with feeling and humor and above all with the razor-sharp skill of a delicate and highly gifted writer." --Andre Aciman, New York Times bestselling author of Call Me by Your Name
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**"Out East is full of intimacy and hope and frustration and joy, an extraordinary tale of emotional awakening and lacerating ambivalence, a confession of self-doubt that becomes self-knowledge." --**Andrew Solomon, National Book Award winner
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_**A gripping portrait of life in a Montauk summer house --a debutmemoir of first love, identity and self-discovery among a group of friends who became family.
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_They call Montauk the end of the world, a spit of land jutting into the Atlantic. The house was a ramshackle split-level set on a hill, and each summer thirty one people would sleep between its thin walls and shag carpets. Against the moonlight the...
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