The Summer Before the Summer of Love

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The Summer Before the Summer of Love is written by Marly Swick and published by Phoenix. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1861590385 (ISBN 10) and 9781861590381 (ISBN 13).

The characters in Marly Swick's stories inhabit the ordinary world of smalltownAmerica, of shopping malls, garage sale & school runs. But as they adapt to love, loss and the frustations of everyday life, the rich complexity of their lives unfolds. In the title story, a young girl goes to a Beatles concert with her mother and sister, and faces the emotional balancing act posed by the recentseparation of her parents; in "The Other Widow" a grieving mistress meets her deceased lover's wife; in "Crete", a woman who cheated death is now faced with the loss of her baby, and the fear that her little daughter's life was taken be-cause her own was spared. In a style as beautiful as it is unsentimental, MarlySwick charts the terrain of ordinary lives, to confront the emotional truths they contain.