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	• Last Days of Summer Steve Kluger Turtleback Books Distributed by Demco Media, 2000 - 353 pages average customer review:based on 146 reviews view larger image
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It was great!

I loved this book! It was filled with humor and a great story told mostly through letters. If you love baseball and the classic stories behind it, you'll absolutely love this book, as it is among the best of baseball stories (right up there with "Field of Dreams"). I highly recommend this book and hope that you will all love it as much as I do!

Last Days of Summer All Year Long!!!

One of the most cleverly written books I've ever read. You don't have to be a baseball fan to enjoy this book. It is SO well written, you want to slow down so as not to finish so fast, but you can't help it!!! Don't move onto your next book before reading this one. You can't help but be in a good mood after reading this.

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Don't read this. Buy the book. You won't regret it!

This is one of two books that have succeeded in making me not notice the budding tap-dancer seated behind me on a plane (and the other was by JRR Tolkien, so that says something). The "sports book" label is a misnomer; the baseball is really secondary to the friendships.

This book is about a boy and a man who change one another's life. It is laugh-out-loud funny, it is moving, and contrary to other reviews I found it completely believable--Joey Margolis is so unusual that his exploits seem completely within his abilities, but at the same time he has very human flaws. The time you've spent reading this review could have been put to better use reading the book!

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One of my favorite books!!!

This is a GREAT book!It's hilarious, smart, and is written in a very unique way!This is a book about friendship and has meaning, but it pulls this off without being a annoying/dramatic teen novel. This is a ww2 story but it talks about ww2 from a totally different perspective.I recommend this book for people who like baseball stories, or people who like a good story that provides good laughs.I've read this book 3 times and i still think it's HILARIOUS!

A Story You Won't Forget...

In Brooklyn, 1940, a young twelve-year-old boy is coming of age in a world where he doesn't belong. His wealthy father has recently divorced his mother, leaving her all but broke, and she is forced to move herself and her son to an Italian dominated part of Brooklyn, leaving him the only Jew in the area. As the incidents of abuse from other boys in the neighborhood mount, young Joey writes to ball player Charlie Banks on the Giants' baseball team, asking for him to hit a home run and say, preferably on the radio, that it was for him. What ensues is one of the most touching, moving stories I have read in many years.

In the Last Days of Summer, Author Steve Kluger weaves an unlikely tale of a young boy who has a much larger impact on the world at large than he can possibly understand, and Kluger does so through a technique of letting the reader into the boy's life through his letters and newspaper clippings. What at first might seem like a clunky or silly gimmick turns into a warm, unusually involved reading experience. By the end of the book, the reader is left feeling as though all of the characters are personal friends, and are far more real than mere letters on a page.

Kluger has obviously done his homework, referencing a massive series of facts and statistics running the gambit from Hitler's invasions of European nations to baseball scores, to national politics in the early 1940's. The main character, Joey Margolis, corresponds with people ranging from Hollywood personalities to community leaders, and even FDR himself.

Speaking as a writer, I can offer no higher praise for a fellow author's work than to say his characters were so believable and well envisioned that I feel as though I could pass them on the street or pick up the phone and dial their numbers. Through his technique of allowing the reader to peer over the shoulders of the characters and read their correspondence, Kluger has given an unusual window into their hearts and minds. In the context of the story, it is far more powerful than any prose could be.

Don't pass this book by. It will stay with you, in your heart and in your mind, for many years to come, and I give it my highest recommendation.

Andrew Barriger, Author of Finding Faith

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