Summer at the LakeFor childhood friends Leo Kelly, Jane Devlin, and newly ordained "Packy" Keenan, the summers they spent at the lake together were times of pure magic. And no summer was more enchanting than the summer of 1948 - until a tragic car wreck killed two of their friends. |
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... figure out why Jane had been so hostile to my suggestion that we should marry . I gave up the puzzle and started to plod down the road to the Keenans ' house . Jane and I could talk it out on the morrow . Then I heard a fearsome roar ...
... figure out why I was being talked to like a criminal . I had probably saved a life . " It's where I was in the smoke . One of them should have been in the back . " " You saw them ? " " No , sir . There was too much fire to see anything ...
... figure out another victim . " " They can't get away with blaming me , can they ? ” " Nope , because I saw you and that little Devlin kid walk- ing down the road a half hour before it happened . After a while , they'll settle down and ...
... figure out how to do it . So I've decided that I'll try to keep a journal first . A journal of the past , as best as I can remember it , and of the present when it happens . A journal and a memoir at the same time . Then when I figure ...
... figure . Great game of tennis . Always good for laughs . A philandering husband who has destroyed her sense of sexual worth , brutish brothers , a son killed in Korea , a daughter vanished into a commune , a second son who is a Yuppie ...
Contents
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St Johns Night | 61 |
The Thirties | 95 |
The 1940s | 111 |
Fourth of July | 145 |
1968 | 291 |
1978 | 299 |
1947 | 307 |
1978 | 321 |
1977 | 327 |
1978 | 333 |
Marys Day in Harvest Time | 337 |
1948 | 339 |
1978 | 147 |
1967 | 197 |
1978 | 209 |
1946 | 217 |
1978 | 243 |
Labor Day | 409 |
The Feast of St Michael Gabriel Raphael and all the other Angels | 461 |
Authors Note | 467 |