Ann Brashares's series, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, has made her one of the most successful contemporary authors, shipping more than 8 million copies over the last five years and winning even more millions of passionate fans. Now, like Judy Blume (Summer Sisters) before her, Brashares turns her spectacular gifts to adult readers.
In The Last Summer (of You and Me), Brashares uses her remarkable storytelling, emotional insights, and talent for capturing relationships to weave a rich, textured, mature novel that will resonate as clearly with readers in their forties as in their twenties. Set on Long Island's Fire Island, The Last Summer (of You and Me) is an enchanting, heartrending page-turner about sisterhood, friendship, love, loss, and growing up. It is the story of a beach community friendship triangle-Riley and Alice, two sisters in their twenties, and Paul, the young man they've grown up with-and what happens one summer when budding love, sexual curiosity, a sudden serious illness, and a deep secret all collide, launching the friends into an adult world from which their summer haven can no longer protect them. As wise, compelling, and endearing as her Traveling Pants series, and as lyrical, thoughtful, and moving as the best literary women's fiction, this novel is sure to win an entire new generation of adult fans.
In The Last Summer (of You and Me), Brashares uses her remarkable storytelling, emotional insights, and talent for capturing relationships to weave a rich, textured, mature novel that will resonate as clearly with readers in their forties as in their twenties. Set on Long Island's Fire Island, The Last Summer (of You and Me) is an enchanting, heartrending page-turner about sisterhood, friendship, love, loss, and growing up. It is the story of a beach community friendship triangle-Riley and Alice, two sisters in their twenties, and Paul, the young man they've grown up with-and what happens one summer when budding love, sexual curiosity, a sudden serious illness, and a deep secret all collide, launching the friends into an adult world from which their summer haven can no longer protect them. As wise, compelling, and endearing as her Traveling Pants series, and as lyrical, thoughtful, and moving as the best literary women's fiction, this novel is sure to win an entire new generation of adult fans.
安妮．布魯克斯的系列作品《牛仔褲的夏天》，讓她成為當代最成功的作家之一，並在過去五年內達到超過 800 萬本的銷售量，獲得了數百萬粉絲的熱情支持。現在，安妮．布魯克斯效仿她的前輩茱蒂．布倫（《Summer Sisters》的作者），將她的天賦化為作品帶給成人讀者。
本書中，安妮．布魯克斯以她出色的文筆、情感洞察力，和她擅長捕捉人際關係的寫作風格，編織出一部情感豐富、充滿韻味、文筆成熟的小說，讓四十幾歲的讀者產生共鳴，彷彿回到他們二十幾歲的時光。本書故事設定在長島的火燒島上，內容是一個關於姐妹之情、友誼、愛情，失去和成長的故事，令讀者為之著迷，更是愛不釋手。故事發生在一個海邊社區的三個朋友之間。萊莉和艾莉絲是一對二十幾歲的姐妹，而保羅是和她們一起長大的年輕小伙子。某一個夏天，當萌芽的愛情、對異性的好奇，突如其來的重病和深埋心中的秘密相互碰撞時，究竟會擦出什麼火花呢？他們將踏入成人的世界，原有的溫暖避風港無法繼續保護她們。本書一如作者《牛仔褲的夏天》系列作品般，充滿智慧、扣人心弦、討人喜歡，也和最佳女性文學作品一樣抒情，體貼和動人，這本小說肯定能擄獲新一代成人讀者的心。