The Summer I Dared: A Novel

Barbara Delinsky

Scribner, 2004 - Fiction - 355 pages

Set in a beautifully rendered island off the coast of Maine, where lobstermen leave with the tides each morning to haul and reset their traps, and neighbors gather each night to feast on the catch of the day, Barbara Delinsky's The Summer I Dared is a deeply moving story of the risky but rewarding search for self, a story of survival, and of the irrepressible ability of the human spirit to rebound from disaster and to create life anew.

Contents

• Section 1: 1
• Section 2: 9
• Section 3: 29

About the author

Barbara Delinsky was born on August 9, 1945 in suburban Boston. She received a B.A. in psychology from Tufts University and an M.A. in sociology from Boston College. After graduate school, she worked as a researcher with the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children. After her first child was born, she worked as a photographer and reporter for the Belmont Herald. She has written more than 60 novels including Shades of Grace, Coast Road, While My Sister Sleeps and Not My Daughter. Some of her novels have been made into television movies including Three Wishes starring Valerie Bertinelli and A Woman's Place starring Lorraine Bracco. She wrote the nonfiction book Uplift: Secrets from the Sisterhood of Breast Cancer Survivors. She has also written under the pen names Bonnie Drake and Billie Douglass. Barbara's novels, Blueprints and Sweet Salt Air, made the New York Times bestseller list in 2015.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Summer I Dared: A Novel; Book one of the Canaan trilogy; Book 1 of Canaan trilogy, Barbara Delinsky; Taking book
• Author: Barbara Delinsky
• Edition: reprint
• Publisher: Scribner, 2004
• Original from: the University of Michigan
• Digitized: Mar 6, 2008
• ISBN: 0743246438, 9780743246439
• Length: 355 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / General