The Summer Guest (Audible Audio Edition) Justin Cronin Mark Bramhall Abby Craden Alex McKenna Arthur Morey Joe Ochman Todd Haberkor Random House Audio Books
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Winner of the PEN/Hemingway Award for his radiant novel in stories, Mary and O'Neil, Justin Cronin has already been hailed as a writer of astonishing gifts. Now Cronin's new novel, The Summer Guest, fulfills that promise - and more. With a rare combination of emotional insight, narrative power, and lyrical grace, Cronin transforms the simple story of a dying man's last wish into a rich tapestry of family love.
On an evening in late summer, the great financier Harry Wainwright, nearing the end of his life, arrives at a rustic fishing camp in a remote area of Maine. He comes bearing two things his wish for a day of fishing in a place that has brought him solace for 30 years, and an astonishing bequest that will forever change the lives of those around him.
From the battlefields of Italy to the turbulence of the Vietnam era, to the private battles of love and family, The Summer Guest reveals the full history of this final pilgrimage and its meaning for four people Jordan Patterson, the haunted young man who will guide Harry on his last voyage out; the camp's owner, Joe Crosby, a Vietnam draft evader who has spent a lifetime "trying to learn what it means to be brave"; Joe's wife, Lucy, the woman Harry has loved for three decades; and Joe and Lucy's daughter, Kate - the spirited young woman who holds the key to the last unopened door to the past.
As their stories unfold, secrets are revealed, courage is tested, and the bonds of love are strengthened. And always center stage is the place itself - a magical, forgotten corner of New England where the longings of the human heart are mirrored in the wild beauty of the landscape.
Intimate, powerful, and profound, The Summer Guest reveals Justin Cronin as a storyteller of unique and marvelous talent. It is a book to treasure.
The Summer Guest (Audible Audio Edition) Justin Cronin Mark Bramhall Abby Craden Alex McKenna Arthur Morey Joe Ochman Todd Haberkor Random House Audio Books
Imagine a summer camp, you are sitting on a deck on the lake, there is the sound of fish on the surface, cigars come out, maybe you say no, but, yes to the glass of scotch that comes with offer, and someone tells you the story, in six distinct voices, why it is you feel safer on that deck than you have ever felt any where else.Justin Cronin tells you that story in the voices of Harry Wainwright, Joe Crosby, Lucy, Jordan, Kate, and Joe's Father. Each chapter is a set piece that stands alone and together fills you with the sense of the limitless power of love and language to convey it.
To say what Justin Cronin has accomplished here is stunning is a cliche, trite, and true. That is a testament to what I have just read and the limit of my vocabulary to describe it.
The stories tell a linear story of three decades of humans and their hearts. Eveyone who tells them tries, and suceeds, sometimes to their own surprise, to be brave.
You travel from a shattered face, to a snow storm on a train, to a fishing camp, to the death of a wife, loneliness, draft evasion, an incredible description of a fishing afternoon gone totally awry, and through it all you are guided by a hand that wants you to see that there is redemption in love and that every hurt may be a source of understanding, if not joy. Justin Cronin wants you to see that trying to be brave earns it own certain courage. He succeeds.
I disagree with those who have limited the season within which to read this book to summer. It is a book for all seasons.
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The Summer Guest (Audible Audio Edition) Justin Cronin Mark Bramhall Abby Craden Alex McKenna Arthur Morey Joe Ochman Todd Haberkor Random House Audio Books Reviews
It is so rare to read a book that has not one boring page in it. This is an elegantly written family saga and suspenseful tale which is visually stunning and emotionally riveting. Polished, immersing, unputdownable. I wanted in. I wanted to leap into the novel--literally! and connect with the characters personally. There are times it brought me to my knees.
This is an author who braids craft with art without sacrificing one for the other. Cronin controls his story and characters with a fierce yet velvet subtlety. It shimmers, like a cold, clean, pure Maine river. The North Woods sparkles in all its four glorious seasons and becomes an important part of the story. I was ready to chuck it all and find that spot in Maine and move there.
The prologue begins just after WW II and continues for about 20 pages. We then are carried to the 1990's, where much of the action takes place, all at this Maine fishing camp for tourists run by a family in its second generation of ownership. It is a reflective story that draws heavily on past events. Cronin masters the back and forth sequences of time without distracting or annoying the reader--in fact, the story blooms with time changes rather than halts.
After reading the last page, I closed the book and just sat there, staring at the cover, drifting back into the story, a shudder through my body, a sigh that wouldn't quit. It was such an exalting experience that I have to gush. I want to share this compelling and unforgettable story with everyone. It is practically flawless. Literature, and a page-turner, a passionate drama. Cronin's powerful and well-chosen narrative style and classy use of the English language prevents it from ever being melodrama.
My heart spills over my words.
Maybe considered to contain some sort of slight spoilers ahead for some, so be warned if you feel so inclined.
It has been a couple of weeks since I finished reading this rather short book and I'm still wondering why Justin Cronin gets all the rave reviews that he does. This is the first book of his I have read, so maybe I did not get one of his best as I have seen some other reviews here suggest. After reading mostly great reviews about this book, I was disappointed. This book started flat, stayed stale and ended the same way it started, flat. The character development was so poor I couldn't get engaged enough to really feel for them. I didn't get to know them so I found that i just didn't really care what direction the story took. Speaking of story, not much of one. Sort of a fathers and daughters story, but not really. Sort of a love triangle story, but not really. Sort of an May/December love affair story, but not really. Sort of a coming of age story, but not really. Sort of fathers reconciling their relationships with their sons story, but not really. Sort of a man coming to grips with the end of his days story, but not really. Not a single narrative was developed in any detail. To me that's where a large part of the problem exists with this book. It's trying to do way to many things in the name of telling a story. It's just to busy for its length. I believe because of this it just doesn't really tell much of a story about anyone or anything. I kept reading. I kept hoping that the next paragraph, the next page, something would finally develop and as I got forty or so pages from the end, it finally dawned on me that it just wan't going to be. Meh. A so so read.
Solidly crafted story telling seeming more like a seasoned writer in his prime rather than an author's first novel. After writing this Justin Cronin went on to make his bones with the Passage trilogy, but for those not in the zombie/apocalypse demographic The Summer Guest may be a more accessible read. The real star in this book is the way Cronin patiently weaves multiple POV's into a powerful interconnected story of a extended family in the making and the suffering and grace involved in that growth. Affecting,gripping read for fans of good writing over fast moving action adventure plots. Recommended.
One of the most satisfying books I have read - characters that I was drawn to, with individual story lines that held my interest throughout the book. Some had secrets, most had disappointments in the course of their lives (as do most of us), but all of the major characters were good people with good intentions, even if they could not always be expressed in a way that the characters wished. It would be wonderful to have a somewhat solitary retreat like the one in this book. A thoughtful gift for so many friends on your list.
Imagine a summer camp, you are sitting on a deck on the lake, there is the sound of fish on the surface, cigars come out, maybe you say no, but, yes to the glass of scotch that comes with offer, and someone tells you the story, in six distinct voices, why it is you feel safer on that deck than you have ever felt any where else.
Justin Cronin tells you that story in the voices of Harry Wainwright, Joe Crosby, Lucy, Jordan, Kate, and Joe's Father. Each chapter is a set piece that stands alone and together fills you with the sense of the limitless power of love and language to convey it.
To say what Justin Cronin has accomplished here is stunning is a cliche, trite, and true. That is a testament to what I have just read and the limit of my vocabulary to describe it.
The stories tell a linear story of three decades of humans and their hearts. Eveyone who tells them tries, and suceeds, sometimes to their own surprise, to be brave.
You travel from a shattered face, to a snow storm on a train, to a fishing camp, to the death of a wife, loneliness, draft evasion, an incredible description of a fishing afternoon gone totally awry, and through it all you are guided by a hand that wants you to see that there is redemption in love and that every hurt may be a source of understanding, if not joy. Justin Cronin wants you to see that trying to be brave earns it own certain courage. He succeeds.
I disagree with those who have limited the season within which to read this book to summer. It is a book for all seasons.
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