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Loading... July and August: A Novel (edition 2009)by Nancy Clark
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. My first Nancy Clark was [Away From Home] and I read it in a state of literary euphoria -- you know -- that sensation when you are reading a book where the words are delicious, so that the place, the characters, the story -- a whole world becomes palpable to you. In this, the third book and last book of the trilogy about the Hill family of Towne, Massachusetts, appropriately Lily has opened a farm stand, finally finding, in her 70's her vocation, growing and selling vegetables. Never married, Lily owns the big family house and all Hills and people, Hills and others have a way of gravitating to her house in times of need and change. It is summer and one beloved niece, terminally ill, has come to stay; the rest of the clan collects and things happen or don't happen. The point of view slides almost slyly from character to character from Petal, the model, who arrives with some great-nephews who've become fabulously wealthy dot-commers and never leaves, to great-niece Julie who announces her engagement but then never once during the interval between the announcement and a day or two before the weddin, allows the family even a glimpse of her too-perfect sounding fiancé. Best of all, for me, are the two little girls, aged 7 who flitter and sneak and battle and giggle their way through the novel. I'm giving it a five for being a perfect domestic novel. no reviews | add a review
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A funny, bittersweet, and wonderfully peopled family saga from the acclaimed author of The Hills at Home, and a fitting farewell to the Hill clan. Great-aunt Lily's pile of a house in Towne, Massachusetts, is once again the gathering place for her far-flung grandnieces and grandnephews. As always, their arrival brings a high summer of comedy and drama. While Lily struggles to get her new business venture off the ground, her granddaughter Sally befriends the local math whiz; brothers and software entrepreneurs Brooks and Rollins turn heads with their supermodel dates; Cousin Julie announces her wedding to a man who may or may not be imaginary; and the family faces the possibility of a final leave-taking of Aunt Ginger, who continues to dish up crucial life wisdom-whether it's sought or not-while reclining on a lawn chair in the sun. No library descriptions found. |
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Not the train wreck bore of Away from Home but less effervescent than The Hills at Home. July and August has lots of charm and humor but it really needed a good editor. ( )