

The Last Summer of the Camperdowns
Author: Elizabeth Kelly
Narrator: Rebecca Gibel
Unabridged: 13 hr 14 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Published: 06/03/2013
Categories: Fiction, Literary Fiction
Author: Elizabeth Kelly
Narrator: Rebecca Gibel
Unabridged: 13 hr 14 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Published: 06/03/2013
Categories: Fiction, Literary Fiction
Elizabeth Kelly is an award-winning journalist and the author of The Miracle on Monhegan Island, the New York Times bestseller Apologize, Apologize!, and The Last Summer of the Camperdowns, a finalist for the New England Society Book Award.
I read this because of the high star rating here and was thoroughly disappointed. Add me to the list of others that felt the narration was way too sophisticated for the mind of a 13 year old. ("We stared at each other, both of us silent and expressionless, sepulchral stillness filling the air like i......more
It took me a few pages to get into Kelly's madcap wit, yet once I did, I throughly enjoyed reading this hilarious book. Riddle Jimmy Camperdown is the narrator of this great summer read. She's 12, turning 13 during the summer of 1972. Her father is a wealthy blue blood from Wellfleet Ma, on Cape Cod......more