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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Mtv Pr
Publication date
August 11, 2009
Pages
268
Binding
Hardcover
Book category
Adult Fiction
ISBN-13
9781576875209
ISBN-10
1576875202
Dimensions
1 by 6.25 by 8.75 in.
Weight
1.05 lbs.
Availability§
Publisher Out of Stock Indefinitely
Original list price
$24.00
§As reported by publisher
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Summaries and Reviews
Amazon.com description: Product Description: âIâm so antisocial, I got a disastrous attitude (Something something someoneâI could never work this part out) was my kinda dude! Iâm proper primitive, true caveman, Neanderthal!Â
Iâll scramble your brains for breakfast, leave paintings on your walls!Â
I doubted I couldâve said it any better myself, what it was like to be alive and confused, so happy I could kill someone and so angry I could laugh.â
Freshman summer, 1986: You think youâre looking for happiness and youâre in love with the worldâs best and most obscure band. Your roommate tells you both reside in Columbus, Ohio. These arenât the first fantasies youâve indulged. Blind faith, after all, may be your one true religion. In the thrall of dead philosophers and mad prophets on the radio, you charge off on a group pilgrimage to Anywhere, Everywhere, Nowhere, USA. You still believe in sex, drugs, and rock and rollâbut youâre not sure in what order. Youâre digging in the crates for that one true thing.
You know something is happening, but you donât know what it isâ¦.
That Summertime Sound is the liner note to that perfect summer single and all its aching echoes, written with the gimlet eye of Jim Thompson, Kazuo Ishiguroâs sense of wonder, and a true believerâs ear for music.
âMatthew Specktorâs That Summertime Sound isnât so much a book as it is a door, hinged in memory, and swinging wide to every tenderhearted throb of lust and longing and precocious regret still there where you left it, at the periphery of adulthood. How does the novel perform this trick? By prose as lucid and classical as Graham Greeneâs in The End of the Affair, yet saturated in detail such that if youâd never had the luck to outgrow an 80sâ teenage dream in Columbus, Ohio, youâll feel you had after reading it.â â¯
âJonathan Lethem
Iâll scramble your brains for breakfast, leave paintings on your walls!Â
I doubted I couldâve said it any better myself, what it was like to be alive and confused, so happy I could kill someone and so angry I could laugh.â
Freshman summer, 1986: You think youâre looking for happiness and youâre in love with the worldâs best and most obscure band. Your roommate tells you both reside in Columbus, Ohio. These arenât the first fantasies youâve indulged. Blind faith, after all, may be your one true religion. In the thrall of dead philosophers and mad prophets on the radio, you charge off on a group pilgrimage to Anywhere, Everywhere, Nowhere, USA. You still believe in sex, drugs, and rock and rollâbut youâre not sure in what order. Youâre digging in the crates for that one true thing.
You know something is happening, but you donât know what it isâ¦.
That Summertime Sound is the liner note to that perfect summer single and all its aching echoes, written with the gimlet eye of Jim Thompson, Kazuo Ishiguroâs sense of wonder, and a true believerâs ear for music.
âMatthew Specktorâs That Summertime Sound isnât so much a book as it is a door, hinged in memory, and swinging wide to every tenderhearted throb of lust and longing and precocious regret still there where you left it, at the periphery of adulthood. How does the novel perform this trick? By prose as lucid and classical as Graham Greeneâs in The End of the Affair, yet saturated in detail such that if youâd never had the luck to outgrow an 80sâ teenage dream in Columbus, Ohio, youâll feel you had after reading it.â â¯
âJonathan Lethem
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from Mtv Pr (August 11, 2009)
9781576875209 | details & prices | 268 pages | 6.25 × 8.75 × 1.00 in. | 1.05 lbs | List price $24.00
About: âIâm so antisocial, I got a disastrous attitude (Something something someoneâI could never work this part out) was my kinda dude!
About: âIâm so antisocial, I got a disastrous attitude (Something something someoneâI could never work this part out) was my kinda dude!
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