by Hila Colman ‧ RELEASE DATE: Aug. 5, 1959
Nearly seventeen, Julie reluctantly accompanies her parents to the artists' colony of Provincetown, Massachusetts. To her this is just one more manifestation of her father's bohemian whimsicality, his partisan refusal to conform. Attracted to Peter, a Portuguese fisherman, she is drawn by his respect for traditional ways, and he is attached to her by her lack of rigid conformity. When Peter's older brother, a rebel, steals a Cris-Craft, it is Julie's father who tempers justice with understanding and through the ordeal of fighting for the delinquent, father and daughter reach a rapprochement based on Julie's realization that she, too, will take the independent way. A good portrayal of parent-child conflict drawn with therapeutic vehemence by the author of A Star for Gina and The Big Step.
Pub Date: Aug. 5, 1959
ISBN: N/A
Page Count: -
Publisher: Morrow
Review Posted Online: N/A
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Aug. 1, 1959
Categories: FICTION
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