Summer Gone: A Novel - Rilegato

"Summer Gone is a remarkable achievement full of wit, intelligence, and humane charm. Its poise is unfaltering, holding firm between joy and heartache, innocence and understanding, life and loss. This book should not only be applauded but cherished. Macfarlane has achieved a perfect marriage of theme and structure -- [he] creates a narrative that flows with the grace and certainty of an eddy."        
--Toronto Star

"Summer Gone is a homage to our most excruciating and beautiful memories. Within this novel is the marvellous height of summer, perfect and fleeting, a place and time we can never get enough of."        
--The Globe and Mail (Canada)

"The writing is sharp and quick enough to cut through the rock of the Canadian Shield -- a wonderful trip."        
--Observer (U.K.)

"Summer Gone is a triumph of voice [and] storytelling."        
--Vancouver Sun

David Macfarlane was born in Hamilton, Ontario, and is the author of the acclaimed family memoir of Newfoundland Come from Away, which Mordecai Richler called "easily one of the most readable and beautifully written books to emerge from Canada." The recipient of several Canadian National Magazine Awards, Mr. Macfarlane is a columnist for The Globe and Mail. Summer Gone was shortlisted for the prestigious Canadian Giller Prize for fiction.