Tales From An Endless Summer: A Novel of the Beach (A Cormorant Book)

This slice-of-Shore-life novel combines the soul-searching of early adulthood, the ecstasy of surfing, and the barefoot quality of a summer by the sea. Set at a quintessential Jersey Shore beach in the 1980s, surfers, would-be artists, poets, and musicians revolve around each other in a world of waves and extraordinary sunsets, parties, strange dreams, love and longing, and the eternal quest for the meaning of life after Labor Day.\nAs one reviewer wrote: ''Novotny has captured the essence of the summer shore and everything which makes it so wondrous, especially the mystical effect the place can have on people if they allow it.... Tales is far above a mere mindless screed to the joys of waveriding. It’s an analog of the transience of youth, the realization of which, when it inevitably comes, is so wrenching.'' (Central Record, Medford, NJ) And the Quality Paperback Book Club noted: ''East coast surfing gets its due.''