5/11/2023 0 Comments Summerlong by Peter S. BeagleWe quickly migrate from character bantering to plot forwarding exchanges of dialogue, which are apparently two entirely different things to Beagle. The first half of the book offers some peculiarities that offer nice curious moments and for a time it seems like it might be trying to flip the coin on A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings. This is not to say that the fantasy advertised on the back of the book shows up immediately, it doesn’t. They take this stranger in and find in time that there is, in fact, something special about this impossibly beautiful woman. Summerlong shows the author’s age in its characters and follows the two late middle-aged protagonists (unmarried but married) living their semi-connected lives before promptly running into a stranger. This book is nothing like The Last Unicorn. I read the plot, looked at the page count and said, “Ah, what the hell.” And then I forgot it, which I’m sure is fine for all parties involved.įlash forward a couple years and now I see that man who wrote a book in 1968 has written a new book, the first in nearly a decade. Not my fare, but after tearing apart most of what the colleague who recommended it to me, I felt like at least giving one of them a shot. It told a happy story where nothing much comes in the way of generally harming anything else. Summerlong by Peter S Beagle – Available Here
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