The Summer of Naked Swim Parties
Fourteen-year-old Jamie will never forget the summer of 1976. It's the summer when she has her first boyfriend, cute surfer Flip Jenkins; it's the summer when her two best friends get serious about sex, cigarettes, and tanning; it's the summer when her parents throw, yes, naked swim parties,...
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Fourteen-year-old Jamie will never forget the summer of 1976. It's the summer when she has her first boyfriend, cute surfer Flip Jenkins; it's the summer when her two best friends get serious about sex, cigarettes, and tanning; it's the summer when her parents throw, yes, naked swim parties, leaving Jamie flushed with embarrassment. And it's the summer that forever changes the way Jamie sees the things that matter: family, friendship, love, and herself.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780061452024 (0061452025)
ASIN: 61452025
Publish date: May 27th 2008
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Pages no: 320
Edition language: English
I enjoyed the style that this was written in - very evocative of the period. I found the characters interesting but for me it didn't go "far enough". I felt there could have been more surprises/developments and it ended rather abruptly for me. It was however a nice conclusion and the story did tie t...
I enjoyed the style that this was written in - very evocative of the period. I found the characters interesting but for me it didn't go "far enough". I felt there could have been more surprises/developments and it ended rather abruptly for me. It was however a nice conclusion and the story did tie t...
No literary pretensions here. Jamie is 14 and coming of age. It is the early 1970s and her parents are maybe not the most restrictive. They host naked swim parties at their home in Santa Barbara, smoke far too much weed and place almost no restrictions on their children. This is unnerving for Jamie,...
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