Voices Of A Summer Day

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Kirkus Review: Voices speak, faces appear, moments and images come and go," softly, for the most part, in this first person retrospective of Benjamin Federov's life as he watches his youngster during a ball game. The almost nine innings add up to some fifty years and they are gravid with a sense of mood and memory. Actually there's something of the sweet-sharp nostalgia of a much younger Shaw (i.e. Girls in Their Summer Dresses). There are lots of girls here too all through Federov's life-- in school; in college; at the start of the war when he met and quickly married Peggy; during it- "a war is a long time"- when there was Leah; and after when he began to feel "surrounded"" by Peggy. Then too there are childhood scenes in a Russian-Jewish first generation "mespucheh"; others of the death of his father; a summer at camp; a wretched evening at a country club; etc., etc. Shaw's Voices all echo transient experience and while they don't say anything really important, they are seductively easy to listen to. April Literary Guild dual selection.

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