The Summer They Came (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780375759093)

There was a time when the seaside town of Long Spit was known only to a few wealthy families and a straggle of New England beachgoers. But when gay developers from Man-hattan, searching for a new place for summer shares and tea dances, get a look at its gently curving beaches, they hatch an ingenious plan to transform the sleepy Rhode Island hideaway into the next gay hotspot. If only someone would tell the townsfolk.

As a contingent of gym-buffed and cell-phone-toting vacationers descends on the village, some locals are outraged, others strangely titillated. Hollis Wynbourne, a reclusive antiques dealer and longtime subject of gossip, is drawn from his cocoon by the sight of sunbathing beauties; wealthy Wesley Herndon suddenly finds the town overrun with his two favorite attractions, frisky hunks and yachts of pedigree; and Anthony, a callow eighteen-year-old, embarks on a sentimental education he never expected to get in his own backyard. An uproarious send-up of both small-town provincialism and the absurdities of contemporary gay life, The Summer They Came will capture you with its portrait of a town you thought you knew, run amuck.

Author: William Storandt
ISBN-10: 0375759093
ISBN-13: 9780375759093
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Language: English
Published: 05/14/2002
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.78lbs
Size: 8.58h x 5.54w x 0.69d

Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 03/01/2002 pg. 287
Publishers Weekly 04/01/2002 pg. 51
Booklist 04/01/2002 pg. 1307
Lambda Book Report 02/01/2003 pg. 22