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Summer Solstice
An Essay
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Ideal for readers who cherish thoughtful, lyrical meditations on nature and seasons, fans of personal essays, and anyone longing to reconnect with the sensory joys of summer. Perfect for those who find beauty in everyday moments and the changing rhythms of life.
Nina MacLaughlin captures the essence of summer in this brilliant, beautiful, sensuous essay.
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Summer is fireflies and sparklers. Fat red tomatoes sliced thin and salted. Lemonade and long dreamy days. The treasures of the season are gone much too soon - but they're captured here, in loving sensuous prose that's both personal and universal, for you to find any time of year.
Experience the most evocative tribute to the meaning of the season, a season whose magical feeling stays with us even in winter. Where does that feeling come from? What is summer made of? The smell of cut grass behind the gasoline of a lawnmower. A crown you've made of flowers. Blackberry bush prickers. First hot dog off the grill. Stargazing and sleeping with the windows open. This essay brims with a searching honesty and insight about what this season has meant in our pasts and what it might mean in our lives ahead.
Release yourself into the sky and feel, Nina MacLaughlin writes, for a moment: there's time.
If summer is the season of your life, if the months between Memorial Day and Labour Day hold your favourite memories, you'll love Summer Solstice.
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“For those unable to venture outdoors, MacLaughlin’s book offers a nostalgic breath of fresh air and hope for future gatherings under open skies. A brief, sweet reverie capturing the fleeting days it describes.” — Green Mountain Review
“A sensuous little book best read either in one evening or savoured slowly. It presents a vivid contrast to the present moment, bursting with elemental, clean immediacy.” — Joan Silverman, Portland Press Herald
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ISBN: 9781574232387
Publisher: David R. Godine Publisher Inc
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 11 June 2020
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Black Sparrow Press,U.S.
Illustration: Illustrations
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Weight: 250g
Pages: 72
About the Author
Nina MacLaughlin is the author of Wake Siren: Ovid Resung, a finalist for a LAMBDA Literary Award and the Massachusetts Book Award, the acclaimed memoir Hammer Head: The Making of a Carpenter, and the companion to Summer Solstice, the forthcoming Winter Solstice. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Also by Nina MacLaughlin
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