{"product_id":"midsummer-paperback-1","title":"Midsummer - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMarcelle Clements\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA splendid Hudson River estate, complete with cook and rose garden. The landscape is inebriating, the women are in full, passionate bloom, and the men are incomprehensible. Susie-chic, smart, spacey, and no longer promiscuous- decides, at forty-five, to do what she would have done at twenty-five: invite a group of amusing friends to spend eight weekends of summer in stunning surroundings. The invitees include her oldest friend, Kay, elegantly nursing a broken heart; her former lover Dodge-still the sexiest man she knows; his randy, neurotic, comedian friend Ron; and Elise, an on-the-cusp artist determined to be in a relationship before she hits forty. Add to the mix Susie's very ardent, very surprising twenty-four-year-old son, and an exhibitionist au pair next door, and you have a delicious romantic farce that deftly slides into and out of something quite a bit darker. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eClements's second novel is one of those rare, satisfying books in which nothing much happens and yet nothing is left unchanged.--\u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003eThe setting is a ridiculously grand Hudson River estate, shared by a group of friends for the summer. At first, Susie's idea is to cheer up her old schoolmate, Kay. She invites an ex-lover, Dodge, who brings in Ron, a comedian. On impulse, Susie also invites a woman artist she knows only slightly. Everyone looks forward to a respite from Manhattan but each privately anticipates something more. The landscape is inebriating; the relationships intense. Over the course of the summer, attraction and withdrawal succeed one another at an astonishing pace. When the party is crashed by Susie's ardent and surprising twenty-four-year-old son, as well as by the exhibitionistic au pair next door, the summer turns into a study of desire--its charm, its futility, and its power. \u003cbr\u003e \"A book full of a rose garden's suggestive stillness, heat, and cultivated beauty . . . A beautiful book, light in tone as summers and gardens often are, but not at all light in its lasting effects.\"--\u003ci\u003eO, The Oprah Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMarcelle Clements was born in Paris and moved to New York at age ten. Her previous books were a collection of essays, \u003ci\u003eThe Dog Is Us\u003c\/i\u003e; a novel, \u003ci\u003eRock Me\u003c\/i\u003e; and a nonfiction book, \u003ci\u003eThe Improvised Woman\u003c\/i\u003e. Her articles and essays on culture, politics, and the arts have appeared in many national publications.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 291\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.77 x 8.31 x 5.58 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 17, 2004\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43156930560063,"sku":"9780156029650","price":21.54,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/iiTZPxgiqA9780156029650.webp?v=1776976491","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/midsummer-paperback-1","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}