The Summer That Melted Everything
Fielding Bliss has never forgotten the summer of 1984: the year a heat wave scorched Breathed, Ohio. The year he became friends with the devil.Sal seems to appear out of nowhere - a bruised and tattered thirteen-year-old boy claiming to be the devil himself answering an invitation. Fielding...
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Fielding Bliss has never forgotten the summer of 1984: the year a heat wave scorched Breathed, Ohio. The year he became friends with the devil.Sal seems to appear out of nowhere - a bruised and tattered thirteen-year-old boy claiming to be the devil himself answering an invitation. Fielding Bliss, the son of a local prosecutor, brings him home where he's welcomed into the
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Format: ebook
ISBN:
9781466890343 (1466890347)
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Pages no: 320
Edition language: English
The only reason this isn't 5 stars is because there was a definite bit of dragging and over reaching going on here... even so I might change my rating to 5 stars once I've processed...I don't think I've ever quite experienced writing like this. It was like language transcended... transformed and tra...
Fielding Bliss is an old man telling his story of the summer that changed everything. When you finish reading his story, you’ll completely understand why he’s now one of those nasty “Get off my lawn!” old guys. And you’ll also probably feel like crawling in a deep dark hole and never returning to pl...
Better than I initially thought.It was Chapter 23 when I finally got it and started to enjoy the story. It was like six degrees of separation, with much separation in between. And by separation, I mean, confusion.Oh, how I was confuzzled for most of this read. At times, I was lost at to what age the...
The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist. Yeah, Keyser Söze's paraphrase of C. S. Lewis' appropriation of Charles Baudelaire isn't part of this book, but it might just encapsulate it. Maybe. It's the summer of 1984 in Breathed, OH, and it's hot. Really hot ...
“What a housebound woman fears is not the knife in the kitchen drawer. It is the outside being better.“ Holy shit, this book is SO intense…This book is mostly set in the '80's.I grew up in the '80's. I still love everything from the '80's: the music, the TV series, the movies. Probably because it al...
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