- Paperback: 432 pages
- Publisher: Kensington Publishing; Reprint edition (1 July 2004)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 075820406X
- ISBN-13: 978-0758204066
- Product Dimensions: 22.8 x 15.3 x 3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 592,048 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"He effectively draws his readers into the wild world of Provincetown...plenty of page turning drama...a winner." - Entertainment Weekly; "This is a cut above more mainstream gay fiction offerings, thanks to Ford's crisp prose and snappy, contemporary dialogue." - Publishers Weekly"
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The author of over forty books, Michael Thomas Ford has been called 'brilliant' by Publishers Weekly and has written award-winning and bestselling books such as Alec Baldwin Doesn't Love Me, That's Mr Faggot to You, It's Not Mean if It's True, and The Little Book of Neuroses. Now he turns his pen to fiction in this powerful and moving novel that depicts the lives of three gay men in Provincetown as they struggle to find love and meaning in their lives.
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23 of 23 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Entertaining, sexy and compulsive,
By Cerisaye (Glasgow, Scotland) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Last Summer (Paperback)
I found this book a welcome antidote to the kind of gay fic where characters seem doomed by their sexuality, spending their lives chasing men yet ending up alone. It's refreshing to read a story with a happy gay couple in a long-term partnership just living an ordinary life, as an example of what's possible. Provincetown makes a perfect setting for a fairy tale book where happy ever afters do happen. It's a place where gay people feel they belong. A magical kingdom of sun and sky, lazy days and starry nights. The stuff dreams are made of. It's an undemanding read but not lacking substance. Relationships, family and romantic are explored in detail, through a group of likeable characters spending one summer season in P-town. Some are looking for love, others running away from their past or simply trying to find themselves. The book's central character is Josh Felling. He's licking his wounds following the revelation by lover of 8 years, Doug, that he's been unfaithful. Josh is a romantic who believes in true love forever. He's looking for Mr Perfect and is not about to compromise just so he doesn't have to be alone. Josh meets Reilly, a heartthrob builder working on the cottage he's staying in, owned by Jerry and Ted the long-time couple who run a guest house called the two Queens. Reilly is about to be married but he's having second thoughts. His love life is sustained by memories of a long ago sexual experience with his best buddy from high school, further fuelled by a troubling attraction to Josh. They meet first of all in the Laundromat where Josh makes an impression by folding all Reilly's clothes from the drier, indulging in happy fantasies about a man with so many work shirts and white boxers. Jackie is a lesbian whose long time lover is about to leave her. She runs a popular club but her biological clock is ticking. Should she have a baby on her own, and who will be the father? Young Toby runs away from Hannibal, Missouri, hoping to find a new gay life, far away from religious parents who don't understand their son. Provincetown is the ideal place to get a gay education. He's lucky enough to be taken under the wing of beautiful drag queen Emmeline, who sings at Jackie's club, saving money for the op that'll finally make her the girl she's always wanted to be. Unresolved issues about the gap between who we are and who those around us want us to be come to a head when Emmeline's ageing mother has a stroke and comes to live with the daughter she's always denied. Big Hollywood producer, Reid Truman, is rich and successful but the one thing he wants is denied him. His boyfriend is an up and coming movie star, Ty Rusk, whose career depends on him remaining in the closet. Reid and Ty escape to Provincetown for a summer together. Can Reid's dream of making a successful gay themed movie starring his gorgeous lover become reality? This mightn't be great literature, but it's very well written. I found it entertaining and compulsive. I couldn't put the book down until I knew how it played out for characters that'd become like friends. I think it'd make a great movie. The book has explicit scenes but erotic rather than pedestrian porn, and firmly in context. The difference between love and sex is one of the book's main themes. Highly recommended.
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Oh My God How Good Is This Book er Fantastic!!!!!!,
This review is from: Last Summer (Paperback)
Well looking through the pages of Amazon i came across a book. So with the summer just ahead i decided to purchase it and thank the lord i did. I could not put down this book, even my friends had to pry it out of my hands on some occasions but they never won.Each character you love, each punch and kiss you are there this book engrosses the reader from the first page and dosent let go until the last. With this book the ending is never in doubt but even when it happens you end up smiling to yourself This book is very easy to read which is not derogative to the author in any way but the cahracters are well written and the storyline is great. Miss this book at your peril.
4.0 out of 5 stars
Engaging, funny and moving,
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This review is from: Last Summer (Paperback)
Following the fortunes of a number of predominately gay men one summer in Provincetown, some or whom are visitors, others year round residents, Last Summer provides an enjoyable read.
Primary among the various characters is thirty-something Josh, escaping Boston and his lover of eight years following Doug's admission to being unfaithful, he takes up residence in the cottage in the grounds of a B&B run by two friendly queens Ted and Ben who immediately take Josh to their hearts. Josh is a freelance copywriter, but has aspirations to write a novel, and among other things this summer will open up opportunities for him, but maybe not exactly as a novelist. Also en-route to Provincetown is Toby, seventeen years old, running from his intolerant overly religious family who upon discovering that he is gay throw him out. In gay terms very naive, otherwise bright and always very likeable, Toby is taken under the wing of Emmeline, a kindly drag artist of indeterminate age who becomes a surrogate mother to him. Emmerline regularly delights the patrons of Jackie's bar with her accomplished act while saving hard to finance the completion of her gender change. Jackie, a black dyke approaching forty, on her own now since the loss of her partner is taking stock of her life. Realising that she is reaching the limits of safe motherhood she decides to begin to look for a suitable father for her child, maybe he is somewhere among this group of gay men. Young Ty Rusk is the hottest new thing on the silver screen, but he as a secret that if revealed could ruin his rise to stardom; he is in a permanent relationship with the older film producer Reid with whom he is hiding away for the summer in a rented cottage in P-Town. They have vague plans eventually, perhaps, for Ty to come out, but a scheming, ambitious and unscrupulous girl threatens to spoil everything for them. Reilly, thirty-something heir to a local business, but by choice a self-employed carpenter, is due to be married to Donna, a marriage that will unite their respective families businesses. But Reilly has a problem he will not admit even to himself, and when he meets Josh he begins to question where his life is heading. These are just a few of the many we will meet in P-Town this summer, all one way or another linked by Josh for whom his summer will prove to be a new beginning on more than one front. Last Summer is an engaging, frequently funny and occasionally moving story. With one or two intentional exceptions the well rounded out characters are warm and appealing, one really cares about them and is never disappointed in them or their destinies. Well written and filled with detail of place and person, if it has a fault it is that it can become bogged down with too much information, but it is nonetheless a most pleasurable read about a group of mainly delightful characters.
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