by Steve Tesich · tapa dura · ISBN 9783036951379
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«Ein letzter Sommer» is the novel by Steve Tesich, published by Kein & Aber in hardcover (491 pages, in German).
The novel follows Daniel Boone Price, a young high-school wrestler growing up in a grey environment in the Midwest of Indiana. Between the joy and disillusionment of his first love, he decides to leave home to try to become a writer, while his father faces cancer and a bitterness that mark the narrative.
Translation from the English by Heidi Zerning; original: 'Summer crossing' (1982). Third German edition, published in 2005.
For readers of coming-of-age novels and family dramas, with a setting that evokes the 1960s in the United States.
Stojan Steve Tesich was a Serbian-American screenwriter, playwright, and novelist. He won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay in 1979 for the film Breaking Away.
