HAUNTED SUMMER

by Hope Dahle Jordan ‧ RELEASE DATE: July 1, 1967

On the night of April first, Marilla Marston drove the delivery truck into a newsboy on a bicycle; in the heavy fog, she didn't even know what she had hit until she got out and saw him. She carried him to the hospital, then fled in fright. The nurse at Reception thought she was a boy. With her hair newly grown in, there were no clues left for the police. Rilla sends all her college money to the hospital, works harder and harder, retreats from the world into a haunted inner self that perceives flashes of reality--her boyfriend Seth is leaving tom, her older sister Eukie doesn't like her--then drops back into the obscurity of her obsession. Her nightmare existence, the consciousness that circles round and round the one terrible secret, shutting people out yet not understanding why they change or what they may be suffering, is fully communicated, without melodrama, in the clipped verging on hysterical voice of an almost eighteen-year-old girl. Tense, dramatic, and very direct.

Pub Date: July 1, 1967

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: July 1, 1967

Categories: FICTION