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This evocative, heart-grabbing novel has all the ingredients of an American classic: young people falling in love, a family falling apart, tragedy, and survival. In Rainy Lake, Mary Francois Rockcastle invites the reader to savor the sights, sounds, and smells of seven summers in a lake community where young Danny Fillian's family purchased a lopsided cabin in the 1960s. From the landscape of her memory, Danny paints a sensitive and wise family portrait of summers filled with fly-fishing, swimming, waterskiing, friendships, and a deepening first love. But things start to go wrong with this…
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1 edition- Other · English · 1994Graywolf Press · 278 pages · 9781555972189
FictionSummer resortsGirlsNew jersey, fictionFiction, generalFamilies