A splendid Hudson River estate, complete with cook and rose garden. The landscape is inebriating; the women are in full, passionate bloom; the men are incomprehensible. Susie, chic, smart, spacey, and no longer promiscuous, decides, at forty-five, to do what she would have done at twenty-five--invite a group of amusing friends to spend eight weekends of summer in stunning surroundings. The invitees include her oldest friend Kay, elegantly nursing a broken heart; her former lover Dodge--still the sexiest man she knows; his randy, neurotic, comedian friend Ron; and Elise, an on-the-cusp artist determined to be in a relationship before she hits forty. Add to the mix Susie's very ardent, very surprising twenty-four-year-old son, and an exhibitionist au pair next door, and you have a delicious romantic farce that deftly slides into and out of something quite a bit darker.

Midsummer

Literature & Fiction

Marcelle Clements

United States

Houghton, mifflin, harcourt

The Dog Is Us

Series of short essays looking at the aging of the pot smoking 60's generation into the stagnant career and chaotic relationship lives of them now in the 80's. The so-called dog that was the focal point of the "high" 60's generation [the "dog" being an euphemism for what drew their foggy attention and kept it - such as clips from the Vietnam War, to a dog walking down the street] has reversed roles and now the recovering non-smokers realize it is now them, their careers and relationships that are now the epitome of absurdity. They are now "the dogs". Book is in good condition with slight marking on bottoms of pagination. Dust jacket is not price clipped but sports some staining and scuffing. 338 pages

Viking Adult

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Midsummer

The Dog Is Us