The Summer Friend A Memoir

Charles McGrath

eAudio - 2022

Alive with the intoxicating magic of summer in New England, former editor of the New York Times Book Review Charles McGrath’s evocative memoir looks back at that sun-soaked season, at family, youth, and a singular bond made at a time when he thought he was beyond making friends.“Sun-drenched and deeply touching.” —The New York Times“Positively aches with beauty and loss.” —Richard Russo, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Empire FallsIt was early evening and a new acquaintance had come to retrieve his daughter from a play date. Instead of driving up in a minivan, he arrived by water, tacking his sailboat smartly across a squiggly channel in the marsh, throwing a rope overboard, and zipping back home, his gleeful daughter riding ...in the wake. Who knew you could do such a thing? And how could you resist befriending a man such as that?Over the course of this rich memoir,... more