"Peter Beagle’s novel Summerlong is a lovely, tantalizing read that moves through a finely-detailed, familiar world into a tale as old and as urgent as language. Its strong-minded characters grab threads of the tale and try to pull it into wildly different directions, tangling passion, comedy, love, despair into a study of life on the B-flat harmonica, accompanied by a soundtrack of wind and waves, and, always, Author: Peter S Beagle. · Legendary fantasy author, Peter S. Beagle, who is best known for penning The Last Unicorn. Plot in a Box: A quiet couple in late middle-age stumble upon an enchanting young waitress with some unusual characteristics and take her under their wing. Invent a new title for this book: Forest Eyes. Read this if you like(d). · Still, The Last Unicorn has had an undeniable impact on SFF readers over the years, so when Summerlong came available, I thought I’d give it a try. I’m glad I did. I’m glad I did. Despite the brevity of the book, Beagle takes his time with the narrative, establishing credible, engaging characters, an effective mood, and a story that’s appealing in itself, without any fantasy elements.4/5.
Summerlong Peter S Beagle Summerlong Peter S Beagle. Menu. Home; Translate. Free Read Hold Tight: A Suspense Thriller Kindle Edition PDF. Silver Canyon: A Novel Add Comment Free Read Hold Tight: A Suspense Thriller Kindle Edition PDF Edit. Summerlong - Peter S. Beagle. Janu fantasy, Slipstream, Tachyon; Peter S. Beagle is best known for writing The Last Unicorn, which I haven't read but heard of time and again as childhood-defining. For what it's worth, I tried watching the animated feature but was vetoed by the other denizens of my household. SUMMERLONG. by Peter S. Beagle ‧ RELEASE DATE: Sept. 15, In his first new novel in more than a decade, Beagle creates an intimate drama between the members of a family who are slowly blindsided by myth and magic spilling into their ordinary world. Abe and Joanna are two halves of a comfortable couple who have been together for 22 years.
“Peter Beagle’s novel Summerlong is a lovely, tantalizing read that moves through a finely-detailed, familiar world into a tale as old and as urgent as language.” —Patricia A. McKillip, author of Dreams of Distant Shores and Kingfisher “Peter S. Beagle’s Summerlong is a rare treat. It revels in texture and music and the ordinary pleasures of life, while the mythic sneaks up on you in tiny ripples and currents, building and growing until suddenly, you realized you’re submerged. It’s the kind of book where the boundaries of reality slowly erode and the characters’ realities unravel in consonance with the surreal. In the case of Summerlong, a complicated-but-functional family on an island in the Puget Sound. A middle-aged couple, Abe and Joanna, have a straightforward life which is rocked by the arrival of Lioness Lazos, a mysterious young woman who enchants the couple completely. Summerlong. Beloved author Peter S. Beagle (The Last Unicorn) returns with this long-anticipated new novel, a beautifully bittersweet tale of passion, enchantment, and the nature of fate. It was a typically unpleasant Puget Sound winter before the arrival of Lioness Lazos.
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