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The last summer (of you and me)

Sisters Alice and Riley reunite with their friend Paul at the beach community where they spent summers growing up, but a romance between Alice and Paul, an illness, and a family secret force them to leave their innocence behind.

Main Author: Brashares, Ann.
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : Riverhead Books, 2008, c2007.
Edition: 1st Riverhead trade pbk. ed.
Subjects:
Friendship > Fiction.
Summary: Sisters Alice and Riley reunite with their friend Paul at the beach community where they spent summers growing up, but a romance between Alice and Paul, an illness, and a family secret force them to leave their innocence behind.
Item Description: Reprint. Originally published: 2007.
Physical Description: 306 p. ; 21 cm.
ISBN: 1594483086
9781594483080
Author Notes: Author Ann Brashares grew up in Chevy Chase, Maryland and graduated from the Sidwell Friends School in 1985. She met her husband while studying philosophy at Barnard College, which is part of Columbia University, in New York City. She worked as an editor in the hopes of saving money for graduate school, but she enjoyed her job so much that she continued to do it until she became a full-time author with her first novel, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants. Since then, she has written five more novels in the popular series; the latest one is entitled, Sisterhood Everlasting. She has also written as her first novel for adults: The Last Summer (of You and Me). In 2005, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants was adapted into a movie. She currently lives with her husband and their children in New York.

(Bowker Author Biography)

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