Seventeenth Summer, Maureen Daly
Seventeenth Summer, Maureen Daly
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Seventeenth Summer

Author: Maureen Daly

Narrator: Julia Whelan

Unabridged: 8 hr 35 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/13/2011

Synopsis

A summer to remember Angie always thought high school romances were just silly infatuations that come and go. She certainly never thought she would fall in love over one short summer. But then she sees Jack Duluths crew cut peek out over a booth in McKnights drugstore, and their connection is beyond any childish crush. Suddenly, Angie and Jack are filling their summer with stolen moments and romantic nights. But as fall grows closer, they must figure out if their love is forever or just a summer theyll never forget.

About Maureen Daly

Maureen Daly (1921–2006) was an American writer who worked in journalism, fashion, and advertising. Born in Ireland, she grew up in Wisconsin and won an O. Henry Award for her short story “Sixteen” while she was still in high school. She wrote her most famous novel, Seventeenth Summer, while still in college, recapturing with extraordinary freshness and sensitivity an experience that because of its very nature no older author could touch. Seventeenth Summer was chosen unanimously as the first winner of the Intercollegiate Literacy Fellowship and was one of the first novels to target a teenage audience.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Zoë on October 15, 2017

I had to read this for my young adult literature class as this was one of the first books classified as "young adult"! I went into this optimistically since it's described as a love story, but I was disappointed. Although it was interesting to read a book written and set in the early 1940s, the main......more

Goodreads review by Katt on August 17, 2015

What amazes me most about this book is that it was written by a girl who was seventeen at the time of writing it. That the author wrote this story so she would always remember just what it felt like to be seventeen. She did a beautiful job of it. This is a book that is prose heavy - lots of lyrical d......more

Goodreads review by nitya on January 11, 2022

Also for my MLIS elective Read 30 pages from each section. The writing was a bit flowery but I didn't mind it. If you like lots of description about nature, this book has it all. And the author published this when she was 21 (she wrote it as a teen though) AND she attended my school (!) Content warning......more

Goodreads review by Alexa on April 05, 2019

In dem Roman "Siebzehnter Sommer" erlebt die 17jährige Protagonistin Angie den Sommer ihres Lebens. Angie hat gerade ihren Highschool-Abschluss gemacht und bis zum Beginn des Colleges bleiben ihr drei freie Sommermonate, die sie bei ihren Eltern in einer amerikanischen Kleinstadt verbringt. Gleich z......more

Goodreads review by Elaine on August 12, 2011

Whenver there is a fallish type of day in August, as today is, I am reminded of this book that I first experienced when I was entering eighth grade; it was a cast-off from older sisters, and I yearned to be a teenager like them, so I read the book to get an idea. It touched me so much, and I always......more

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