The Summer That Melted Everything

The Summer That Melted Everything

Softcover
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Description

Winner of The Guardian's Not the Booker Prize. Fielding Bliss has never forgotten the summer of 1984. The year a heatwave scorched the small town of Breathed, Ohio. The year he became friends with the devil. When a tattered and bruised thirteen-year-old boy turns up in Breathed claiming to be Satan himself, everybody assumes he is just a runaway. But when strange things start happening to the townsfolk, there are some who start to believe that Sal is exactly who he claims to be.

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Format
Softcover
Pages
320
Price
19.00 €

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Sehr unerwartete Handlung und Wendungen, bei dem Klappentext. Wunderschön geschrieben. Hat mich so mitgenommen wie lange kein Buch mehr!

5

this is so good des beste buch des ich seit "a little life" gelesen hab i'm not ok

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The Summer that Melted Everything is a very unusual book. It reminds me a bit of "To kill a Mockingbird" in the style and way the story is told. Tifanny McDaniel is an amazing author. Her writing style is exceptional and she delivers the story perfectly. It's a very deep and philosophical debut that focuses also on sensetive topics like homophobia, racism and religious extremism. Breathed is a little town in Ohio in 1980s where Fielding Bliss befriends the devil a.k.a Sal. There is a lot of prejudice and southern traditions that shows a dark era in which racismn is nothing unusual. It's a very emotional and intense read and I had to take a few breaks while reading it. I honestly see every good aspect in the book and I can't argue that the topics are important and that Tifanny presented them amazingly but I also had a few problems with the genre. I normaly don't read this genre because I have a hard time with it on an emotional level. But still, this books is great and I honestly recommend it if you enjoy heavy topics and magical realism. (I received an advance review copy of The Summer That Melted Everything from the publisher through NetGalley. All opinions are my own.)

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