My Lists
Featured Lists
The days of summer
a novel
By Barnett, Jill
- ISBN
- 978-0-67103-535-8
- Publisher
- New York : Atria Books, 2006.
REVIEWS
Library Journal
Reviewed on June 15, 2006
In Barnett's (Sentimental Journey ) first novel in four years, the effects of a car accident reverberate across three generations and 45 years. In 1957, drunk financier Rudy Banning kills himself, his wife, and two others when his car plows into a musician's station wagon. Banning leaves two young boys to be raised by their tyrannical grandfather. The musician's widow, Kathryn Peyton, would have committed suicide except for her four-year-old daughter, Laurel. Thirteen years later, brothers Cale and Jud B...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
