A THOUSAND SUMMERS

by Garson Kanin ‧ RELEASE DATE: Oct. 5, 1973

More than an old man's looking-back ages this -- there are the bonafides of the period (from the '20's on -- Lyon's toothpaste, Lindbergh's flight) as well as a sometimes excessive sentimentality (an al fresco affair in a ""bower where love happened""). That aside -- older readers in particular will enjoy the retrospectively remembered romance of Freeman Osborn, a pharmacist on Martha's Vineyard, and Sheila, the wife of a prominent government official, as through some twenty years they share their fondness for all things Japanese and each other meeting on the island or in cities here and abroad. Always hoping that ""our time will come."" It doesn't and after Sheila dies Osborn, having strange lapses, fills a prescription faultily which causes the death of a child. . . . It all reads sympathetically enough from sayonara to sayonara -- pressed autumn leaves.

Pub Date: Oct. 5, 1973

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: Doubleday

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: Oct. 1, 1973

Categories: FICTION