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001			on1273679802
003			OCoLC
005			20220131160519.0
007			tb
008			211007t20222020meu d 000 1 eng d
010			_a 2021946620
020			_a9781638081814 _q(large print : hardback : alk. paper) : _c$37.95
020			_a1638081816 _q(large print : hardback : alk. paper) : _c$37.95
035			_a(OCoLC)on1273679802
040			_aYDX _beng _cYDX _dDON _dOCLCF _dILC _dHSA
041	0		_aeng _geng
043			_an-us-me
050	1	4	_aPS3614.I34 _bB58 2022d
082	0	4	_a813/.6 _223
100	1		_aNichols, Jim, _eauthor. _9119043
245	1	0	_aBlue summer : _ba novel /
250			_aCenter Point Large Print edition.
264		1	_aThorndike, Maine : _bCenter Point Large Print, _c2022.
264		4	_c�2020
300			_a318 pages (large print) ; _c23 cm
500			_aRegular print version previously published by: Islandport Press.
520			_a"At forty, Cal Shaw has seen better days, that's for sure, but it wasn't always like this. He grew up with his brother, Alvin, and his sister Julia, in the small Maine town of Baxter, confident in his own capabilities, especially regarding music. He took his happy life for granted, as lucky children often do. But everything changed when he was ten and his dad died in a freak accident. Soon, trouble, mostly in the form of a violent stepfather, found a home - his home. As an escape, the Shaw kids turned to music lessons with family friend Uncle Gus, but it turns out no one can escape the violence and grief that rains down on the Shaws. Blue Summer is the story of the Shaw family's undoing, and Cal's struggle to grow up in a world determined to break him. Even his music threatens to take him down with booze-filled nights and one-night stands. As Cal tries to make sense of his existence, living as far away from his family as he can, a snippet of melody comes to him - timeless and haunting. But before he can finish it, his past asserts itself with a phone call that Uncle Gus is dying and it's time to come home and face an altogether different kind of music. In this story, author Jim Nichols writes a riveting coming-of-age novel that examines the melancholy fate of a boy torn apart by loss and domestic abuse, and the justice he eventually delivers, all the while writing a beautiful melody to counter it all, a song he calls 'Blue Summer'"--
650		0	_aBildungsromans. _929441
650		0	_aLoss (Psychology) _vFiction. _9119044
650		0	_aStepfathers _vFiction. _9119045
650		0	_aLarge type books. _9119046
651		0	_aMaine _vFiction. _9119047
655		7	_aFiction. _2fast _9119048
942			_2ddc _cLP
999			_c62277 _d62277