novels set over long hot summers

this is what i want to read, help me out

Carson McCullers' the Heart is a Lonely Hunter has this feel to me, but might actually not be exactly right?

that one jonathan lethem book i read

Obv The Body (aka Stand By Me) fits this, I've only ever seen the film, though. Guessing most of these feature adolescent coming-of-age stories...

Martin Amis' The Pregnant Widow fits. It's alright.

The Go-Between?

A Month in the Country, maybe. Not that long I guess. Only a month iirc. But a great book.

(makes corny joke about a month being a long summer if you're from the UK)

'The Great Gatsby' is all summer all the time iirc

I thought To Kill a Mockingbird fit, but according to wiki it takes place over three years. So, uh, it doesn't, I guess.

The Bell Jar iirc

I thought To Kill a Mockingbird fit, but according to wiki it takes place over three years. So, uh, it doesn't, I guess.

I thought the same thing. I haven't read it since I was at school but in my head it's a single long hot summer.

The Mysteries of Pittsburgh

Dune

i lolled

I am pretty certain that at least one Richard Brautigan book has a long hot summer as the central time period, but I cannot think of which one in particular. Trout Fishing in America, maybe? Or So the Wind Won't Blow It All Away?

Ooh, I've got one: Bonjour Tristesse by Francoise Sagan.

The Swimming Pool Library

I think I should read The Mysteries of Pittsburgh

Sorry for posting repeatedly, I have a brain like a sieve so need to put them down as I think of them.

Definitely fits:
Laurie Lee - Cider With Rosie

Fit to a reasonable degree:
Rayner Heppenstall - The Blaze of Noon
Thomas Mann - Death in Venice (not a novel, but still)

Is Martin Amis' London Fields set over a long hot summer? I read it over one, certainly, and now I can't remember which was fiction and which was real.

I don't think it is...pretty sure he bangs on and on about black skies over london heralding the new millennium etc. I may be wrong though.

Wikipedia tells me it concludes in November.

Now all the books coming to mind are things I read on holiday; I clearly have a perception difficulty here.

Call Me By Your Name, by Aciman-- lots of swimming, sunbathing, tips on seducing your family's summer scholar-in-residence.

Ooh, I've got one: Bonjour Tristesse by Francoise Sagan.

― emil.y, Thursday, 25 April 2013 12:39 (5 days ago) Permalink

this sounds wild, i'm going to check it out

Middlebrowing it a bit, but Tom Perotta's 'Joe College'?

thx guys! going to pick up a few of these

I really liked Bonjour Tristesse when I was an angsty teen, but later I found Sagan's corruption of existentialism into poor little rich girl ennui kind of gross. I should probably re-read those books, though, haven't read them since before I hit 20. Can't remember what the other one is, something about clouds?

I think Lorrie Moore's Who Will Run The Frog Hospital? counts here to some extent.