It is the things that happen to you which no one else knows about that make you important in life," says Haley Ellyson in this captivating novel about first love and loss of innocence, set in the fictional town of Houser Banks. Abandoned by her mother and raised by her good ol' boy father, beautiful Haley, who has broken the heart of every boy in town, has two secrets that give her power but make her vulnerable. letcher Greel, the Judge's son, is home for the summer. His oldest friend Riley is in love with a black girl ...
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It is the things that happen to you which no one else knows about that make you important in life," says Haley Ellyson in this captivating novel about first love and loss of innocence, set in the fictional town of Houser Banks. Abandoned by her mother and raised by her good ol' boy father, beautiful Haley, who has broken the heart of every boy in town, has two secrets that give her power but make her vulnerable. letcher Greel, the Judge's son, is home for the summer. His oldest friend Riley is in love with a black girl named Crystal, and Fletcher falls instantly for Haley. Intoxicated by blues and whiskey and the new-found freedoms of late adolescence, the four of them are bold and rash and in love. But they live in a place where old attitudes die hard. As the summer wanes, disapproval of Riley and Crystal's romance takes a hateful and violent turn, and Haley's secrets surface with frightening results. ich with unforgettable characters, mesmerising prose, and smouldering sexual tension, The Summer Fletcher Greel Loved Me captures all the intensity and exhilaration of young love and rebellion, and signals the arrival of an uncommonly gifted new writer.
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Fine in Very Good jacket. Book Octavo, hardcover, fine in near fine b & w pictorial dj. Coming of age in Mississippi. 297 pages. After graduation from a New England prep school, Fletcher Greel, the judge's son, returns home and falls in love with Haley Banks, while his best friend, Riley, becomes enamored with a blues-singing black girl named Crystal, and as these four lives become connected by romance, passion, and the new-found freedoms of late adolescence, racial tensions and violence threaten to destroy them all forever. Teenaged Haley Ellyson, growing up in a Southern town, is adored by her boyfriend Fletcher, but she is also pursued by a much older horse trainer, named Bo, with whom Haley shares a terrible secret involving a murder. After a summer of booze and sex, the facts catch up with Bo, and with Haley, who also has to cope with her father's problems with alcohol and his girlfriend's miscarriage.