Popular Books by Norris Church Mailer

View All Books by Norris Church Mailer
A Ticket to the Circus
A Ticket to the Circus
Norris Church Mailer
$13.23 $34.68
Used
Add to basket
Windchill Summer
Windchill Summer
Norris Church Mailer
$28.16
New
Add to basket

Windchill Summer

3.83 ( 168 Ratings by Goodreads)
Windchill Summer

Windchill Summer

(Author)
3.83 (168 Ratings by Goodreads)
paperback
Published: 7 May, 2001

Out of stock
List price : $9.32

Wishlist This
FREE Returns within 30 days
More Details

Description

It is the start of a long, hot summer. Cherry and Baby are working at the pickle plant - everyone in Sweet Valley does this sooner or later - saving for the final year of their art degrees. As the machines hum and pulse with heat, the only relief is the wind-chill factor, the occasional breeze that evaporates the skin's film of sweat and draws the heat off for a few seconds. Cherry is over six foot, thin as a reed with pale skin and wild blonde hair. She has been brought up in the Holiness Church, as innocent and naive as it is possible to be. Baby is beautiful and petite, an Oriental jewel, sassy and damaged - and Cherry's protector. But nobody can protect Cherry from real life this summer and it begins when Carlene is dragged murdered from the lake. And when the boys come home from Vietnam, in an indefinable way the war comes back too, seeping into everyone's lives as the awful truth begins to unravel about who killed Carlene and why.
See more

More Details

Type Book
ISBN13 9781841151496
ISBN10 1841151491
Number Of Pages 480
Item Weight 1000 g
Publisher / Reseller Fourth Estate
Format paperback
Edition New
See More +

Media Reviews

Totally engrossing, with wonderful unpredictable characters. PENNY VINCENZI This is an impressive, ambitious debut in which Church Mailer successfully marries a thriller to a coming of age novel. Confidently plotted, the novel's initial easy pace builds to a strong climax when the Vietnam war is brought brutally back home. OBSERVER Evocative language brilliantly recreates the place and the period in which she grew up. She has combined tragedy with comedy, acute comment and well-made plot in a memorable novel. SUNDAY TELEGRAPH

Show more

Author's Bio

Norris Church Mailer now lives in Cape Cod with Norman Mailer, her husband of twenty years. Born and raised in Atkins, Arkansas, she had a Freewill Baptist childhood and worked in the Atkins pickle plant. She was an art teacher and married her high school sweetheart who had been to Vietnam. She divorced her first husband and met Norman Mailer in 1975. She became a Wilhemina fashion model in New York, has had nine one-woman shows as a painter, acted in soaps, held an actors' studio and written plays. Windchill Summer is her first novel.

Show more